CHILDREN NEED DISCIPLINE
Influences which produce juvenile delinquency were discussed at the Regional British Isles Conference of the New Educational Fellowship at St. Andrew’s University. Miss Catherine MeCallum, of Glasgow University, who is responsible for an educational clinic, said that the majority of delinquency eases brought before that clinic were the result not of misuse of leisure, but the outcome of mental conflict. There was not nearly so much repression of children in homes today. Indeed, there was a danger of running to the other extreme. There were parents so anxious to give every freedom to their children that they neglected to exercise any control at all. A child could not form character and stability unless it learned to submit to control. It was necessary to repress certain emotional outbursts. “I am not in favour of corporal punishment,” said Miss MeCallum, “but I use it at times.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LV, Issue 4558, 12 October 1935, Page 4
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147CHILDREN NEED DISCIPLINE Manawatu Herald, Volume LV, Issue 4558, 12 October 1935, Page 4
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