CHILDREN “OVER-FUSSED”
Dangers of “over-fussing” children are commented on by Dr G. K. Bowes, school medical officer for Bedford. England, in his annual report (states an exchange). “Children of large families of bygone generations,” he writes, “with an intense and real struggle for existence, acquired much in the way of character for which present conditions do not provide.” The only child of the present age, Dr Bowes suggests, is no healthier and possibly less happy than children of large families of the past, despite being medically supervised and treated with elaborate care. “Many children,” he adds, “are overfussed, over-coddled, and probably over-doctored. Largely as a consequence, they seem in a great measure to be lacking in those qualities of self-reliance which were found more often in the harder conditions of life of the past.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20536, 30 September 1936, Page 12
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134CHILDREN “OVER-FUSSED” Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20536, 30 September 1936, Page 12
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