AGE OF INNOCENCE.
RUDENESS IN CHILDREN. LATEST ADVICE TO PARENTS. LONDON. August 6. " When your seven-year-old boy returns from school and says, ' Father, you are a fool,' or ' Mother, you are a liar,' it is not rudeness, but aD atavistic manifestation of innocence; the directness of a rustic whoso vision is nature. Ihis was what Dr. Israel Feldman told the Social Hygiene Council. " The modern schoolboy and schoolgirl,"- he said, " are bound to break oifi from the confinement of civilisation. . In guiding the adolescent we must come ba,ck to nature and relearn the rugged frankness of the Bible and the simplicity of the Garden of Eden."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20950, 13 August 1931, Page 11
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106AGE OF INNOCENCE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20950, 13 August 1931, Page 11
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