HOME TRAINING

Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1920, Page 2

HOME TRAINING

An ideal of homo and marriage was put forth by Judge Alden in a lecture at Wellington. Ho urged parents not only to get their children's confidence, but to keep it; the first being easy in the days of their early youth when "to tell father or mother" is the easy and natural thing. He pointed' out the mistake of ever checking such confidences with a shocked air of "Oh. no, we never mention it"—but. offering such explanation as is suitable to the age of j the child, and keeping track of its -developing ideas. He dealt very justly with the moving picture question, and said that he highly approved of pictures of the right sort as being bright amusement, and education as well. But he sounded a serious note of warning about the wrong sort of picture and play. A clean mind meant a clean body, and the parents were responsible for these, not the churches and riot the schools, though both could help the parents in their good work. The argument of the lecturo was that indifference was the match which when applied to the powder of revolution carried disaster, and this applied to the home as well as to the business wprld. Judge Alden urged people to think a great ileal more, and to apply themselves to reading history so as to prepare themselves to grapple with the domestic problems, which were the grim giants of to-day. . I