THE CHEEKY CHILD

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14766, 4 October 1921, Page 7

THE CHEEKY CHILD

AFTERMATH OF THE WAR. Are children more impudent than those of years ago"? Judge Parry at Lambeth County Court, said recently that they are. "Children, from my experience of them, both in and out of Court, are cheekier than tliey were years ago," said Mr T. Owen Jacobsen, a Magistrate at Lambeth Juvenile Court. "1 am sure. I was never so cheeky. Ton see I was one of i 'i! "Generally speaking, children of Victorian times were brought up in awe of their parents. At. any rate in awe of 'papa,' and, if he was 100 severe, 'mamma' was usually capable of exercising a nicely discriminating authority over him ! "When large families were Ihe order of Ihe day real control over the children was' absolutely esseulial to the happiness of a home. Imagine what would have happened if a dozen children were all permitted by their doting parents to develop separate temperaments. Parents were just as fond of their children then as now. Iml. the conditions nf life and upbringing were enlirely difforonl. "Present-day impudence is largely a war aftermath. During the war lh" children sol. mil of hand because father was away, and poor mother was too worried and anxious In tackle the job properly herself. Manners and tempers have both gmwn worse, and the child's 'own way' is looked upun ns being Ihe 'only way' in which it can he properly brought up."