Children Talking
INE child said: "I always tell Mummy all my troubles, because Mummy knows best." But ‘a boy said: "My parents don’t know half the things I’m playing about with." And another boy broke his aunty’s gramophone and told her he didn’t want to play any more records, "Was that a good thing?" Keith Smith asked. "No, not really. I felt bad about it afterwards." "So you went and told your aunty?" "No, I didn’t tell my aunty." "But you've been thinking
about it since?" "Yes, but I think it'll be all right. It’s a good gramophone." Children seldom say what they mean in public, or mean what they say, or know what they mean. They don’t know that words can express their own feelings as well as someone else’s; or if they do know they see no reason to expose their real thoughts to the treachery of adults. It seems almost in the nature of a confidence trick that Keith Smith has managed to uncover so many peeps at the genuine child for his ABC programme, A Word from Children (ZB Women’s Hour). I wonder if I ought to be listening and listen nevertheless, as
one always does.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 18
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202Children Talking New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 18
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