YOU KNOW THIS CHILD
We N | EVER mind, darling — Mummy will get you another!" is a phrase that falls on the ear as inoffensively as it does familiarly. Surely there can be no harm in such an ejaculation. And there are moments when it seems that nothing less will stem a small person’s grief or disappointment at the loss of some cherished thing. But we must make our own decisions about the when and how of using it. I saw a small girl break an expensive toy wilfully, out of bravado and to demonstrate her own power and importance. Another child looked on, half awed, half admiring .... "Ooo! Look what you’ve done!" "Pouf! That doesn’t matter! Mummy will get me another!" She was only repeating what she had learned by experience to be the truth-what her parent had assured her over and over 4in matters large or small. At last she had ~ come to value nothing. She was the indulged child. . Perhaps she will also be an indulged woman. But it is pretty certain that she will, sooner or later, fling away or shatter something that cannot be replaced. She is a child with unhappiness ahead.
KAY
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 12, 15 September 1939, Page 11
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197YOU KNOW THIS CHILD New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 12, 15 September 1939, Page 11
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