NEUROTIC CHILDREN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10685, 12 July 1912, Page 4

NEUROTIC CHILDREN.

"There imay be found in almost every school examples of the -nervous or neurotic <Mfcl, the proper management of wihom presents a problem of great difficulty iboth Ho the parent and the teacher," said Inroectcr Hendry in, hiis report to the Southland Education Board the other day. "This type of child,"- he wJnt on, "is one in •njx>m emotions 'are easily rcciirain.ed— a temlpe.ra.ment that is quite compatible with the healthiest and happiest c-tf lives, but which by mismanagement, abuse and faulty training' will result in the. production of a child with enfeet'led will power, loss cf edf-control, and an undiue appreciation of real or imaginary ailments; in other words, the 'nervous' or 'neurotic' child is .simply a potential, hys-tei-ical girl, or 'neurasthenic man. As my .attention has .been Ifrequently directed to children of this type, and my adxice as to (their .treatment iai school asked Iboth by parents and by teachers, I .take this opportunity of quoting a portion cif an artie'k by H. Evelyn Jones, M..R.C.5., L.R.C.P., on nervouOTess in school children, .in the nope that n't -may 'furni'Ji'i some suggestions'." After perusing the article in question, the Board dc-cidied that it y.-oU'ld he inadvisable to attempt any sjeto-m of disjunction at the present time. One unember remarked that the teachers qualified to say whether a child wiw . uffering ifrom neurasthenia or not were very few indeed.