NAUGHTY CHILDREN
London, July 26. Doctors, discussing naughty children at the British Medical Association Congress at Portsmouth, described how some revel in naughtiness for sheer pleasure, reducing their parents to a nervous prostration. Dr. Cameron, one of the greatest authorities on children, instanced the case of a girl, aged ten years, whose mother was distressed because the child was horribly interested in deaths and murders. “When we returned to the wait-ing-room. where the child had been left while the mother consulted me, we found a charming little girl, all smiles and dimples. She had selected a book on skin diseases from the hook-case, and was looking at the unpleasant illustrations. Ihe mother turned pale and threw up her hands in horror. Then the child closed the book with a smile of utter satisfaction, having achieved her object, which was simply to make her mother shiver.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2612, 28 July 1923, Page 2
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145NAUGHTY CHILDREN Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2612, 28 July 1923, Page 2
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