NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 136, 10 June 1926, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

PARENTS AND CHILDREN. It was good advice on the whole, though perhaps it might be unpalatable to some (writes the Christian Science Monitor), which Dr. C. Macfie Campbell gave to parents in a talk before the Family Welfare Society in. Boston, when he expanded upon the harm done by establishing the wrong mental attitudes between parents and children. The most healthy relation-, ship between parents and children is established, according to Dr. Campbell,* when the parents realise that they themselves are not all-wise and have not yet finished their own education, and when they thus become entirely free from all unreasoned attitudes. Then, be urged, they do not try to regulate their children too strictly according to their own prejudices, but give them as much freedom as possible, at the same time making sure that the children carry out the ordinarily-reasonable rules of conduct such as have been established for centuries and (.are everywhere accepted. Many a parent would do well to ponder the words of Mencius, the Chinese philosopher, “ The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.”