WHAT THE THREE-YEAR OLD HEARS.
“A father and mother are having what is technically known as a ‘lewwords,’ and a small hoy three years of age is a passive witness of the scene. The parents little think that the silent observer is pronouncing judgement on what be lias heard and seen,” writes l)r. C. W. Kimmins, in the ‘Mirnlay Express.” “lie may, however, have conic to- the conclusion that mother was quite right and that father, although lie fails to recognise it, was absolutely in the wrong, lie may also think that mother, with much greater intelligence, was in this verbal dispute much superior to tho rather irritable and bullying father. Further scenes confirm this opinion, and in his infantile wisdujn he decides that father is what he learns to describe in later life as ‘rather a silly ass.’ It may,, of course, he the other way about. Parents are to recognise that their children are extraordinarily clever little people, and that they form fairly sound judgements long before they have sufficient command of speech to describe them.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1929, Page 7
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178WHAT THE THREE-YEAR OLD HEARS. Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1929, Page 7
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