Start Young Learning To Be Good Parents
LONDON, Fri.—The job of teaching young people how to become good parents should begin at school at the age of 14, says a Ministry of Education pamphlet published yesterday. Children should be given background knowledge so that, even if they have forgotten the details by the time they marry, they will have the right general attitude toward children. The training of girls should not stop at washing clothes and cooking food, says the pamphlet, but should include detailed instruction in handling the family income, gardening, poultry keeping, fashions, and guidance on style .taste and design. “The efficient running of a home,” the pamphlet adds, “needs intelligence, cemmon sense, imagination and capacity, sometimes, to question (he value of established routines.”
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Northern Advocate, 6 August 1949, Page 5
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