SERIALS FOR CHILDREN
eir,-it has been suggested that because children do not take their serials seriously these do no harm. I wonder if years of inferior cinema entertainment and of sensational literature have turned us into a generation of adults who negatively provide our children with education and entertainment that do no harm rather than that which does good. By good I do not mean the story with a moral or containing health and sociological propaganda: I mean something more vital and permanent than that. I consider that a child who listens regularly to a serial and does not take it seriously is more harmed and wronged than one who does. At the best he is liable to become a satirist or a cynic. While aware that cynics and satirists have their place in this world, I dread the fate of a future New Zealand Shaw, Swift, Butler or Wyndham Lewis, for even 10 years hence I cannot imagine a New Zealand editor taking kindly to them, and in the whole flock of: literary geese there is no goose so pathetic as the satirist who has had his wings clipped by editorial shears. Anyone who has seen a_ normal healthy child moved by stories of nobility, unselfishness, fortitude and by the sorrows of others must realise that in the average serial we are giving him a stone when he asks for bread.-
MOTHER RAMPANT
(Dunedin)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 279, 27 October 1944, Page 7
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235SERIALS FOR CHILDREN New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 279, 27 October 1944, Page 7
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