LITTLE MINDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 40, 21 October 1925, Page 61

LITTLE MINDS.

Little minds axe like a looking-glass. They reflect everything that passes before them. So do we all reflect what we are —either good or bad.. If we reflect enough,, the bad has no place in bur lives. When children begin , to read for themselves, it is very necessary that mothers know b, absolutely what they read. At school many mothers seem to think that the child is safe because there the . teachers look after the : matter. •It .is when the.boys and girls get to be 12 or 13 years old that the most harm is done. Many of them read greedily the novels that are written for grown people. At that, , most of the novels written now are not good reading for anybody. They are. written with the idea of being as bad as possible without v being denied the privilege of the mails. It is the children’s thoughts that make them grow into fine and honest men and ; women. When a child loves to read, his future life is apt to be determined by what he reads. , Hjs mind will reflect it in his daily life Good motherhood is never careless about a child’s reading. ;