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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1952,
AT THE CLINIC FOR The Most PROBLEM CHILDREN Important Year
In Your Life Two more case reports
IS parents couldn't it. A understand
possible!
boy of their dull
and backward? Im-
So they brought him to the Notre Dame
Child Guidance Clinic
THE DULL, BACK- WARD BOY WHO
FOUND HIS NICHE
to be reassured about him, and to have his trouble, whatever it was, ychologists,"
put right. After all, he was well built, big for his eight years, and their son. There couldn't be very much wrong with him.
Indeed he was like any healthy hoy of the same age, except for his air of Worry und apprehensive- ness, and the fact that he was very far behind in his school work.
The clinic can work wonders children who for with normal Some reason have become naimh- Justed; but this was one of the many pathetic cases which de- feat the experts,
Test showed
that the boy weather intelligence, that he was in the "butlerline feeble-minded category.
Pulling a young lad inte scientifle compartment like that
round
rold
tra
11
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paper
to
fold
Unhappy Task
A
His
Their Misery
to
THAT is the most im portant year in you life? From the point
the
Given a
doll's housc, filed with furniture and a typical,
easily identified doll - family, children tend to take the dolls representing people they don't
ke, and put them to bed!
Faced with a collection of toy
side a
nervous child would
the barre, and surround
information. Having gained the child's confidence this takes a lot of time and patience, but is absolutely essential-it is often persible to trace an apparently complicated problem to à simplc source.
of problems
Sister Maric Hilda is small, but what she Incks in physical stature she more than makes up
As in the crise in character. Since 1931, when
of a little girl she founded the clinic to treat who was a pilferer, and regularly * problem chlidren of all classes stole sinatl sums of money from and denominations, she has her mother, The
her ideals with pursued
a won her conâdence, and was then resolute courage which has over- able to Bid out what she wanted and has won for her an interna- sweets. come a good deal of prejudice, the money for. It was to buy
tional reputation,
the
feund that
he things
went youngster to the special
shool, were do. for
there
could
young man, with his
mutes,
unt.
ol
psychiatrist
ns
Scietan, however, is neither. is impersonal, fucirat tarts with- out emotion, as so few of us are eupole of doing without its he, a vii Its impersonality is
had fallures, too. eight It vet this grare. year-old from bewilderment and misery.
Their misery was evident. And yet weren't they being selfish and unfair? Aren't we all unfaiṛ when we think of people who are under the stigma of inental of view of development, the defectiveness?
habits crucial age-when There are so many degrees of are formed and your per intelligence,
from genius Idiocy. Most of us are no higher sonality made or marred animals, soldiers, and so on, s Elm put the toy animals in- above the lowest than we are is between two and three below the highest. Why should years, From this study themselves, or perlups they pro- we feel condescending ond
with soldiers. those whase it has been possible to draw up Ject in their children their own superior about
That is one of the basic Even in play ho would be scek- is of the things which children fru trated hopes, These parents mental level is slightly under the principles enunciated by Slater ing security. of a certain age can be expected were like that; and now they average?
Marie Hildo, director of the Notre Such indirect methods can give to do, and mensure, as far as were being asked to give up ability to lend a full and useful Glasgow, Scotland: nnd it very
What matters, after all, is the Dame Child Guidence Clinle, a quite astonishing amount of possible, native Intelligence as their dream.
No matter how kindly it was life within one's limitations. We largely explains why she has distinct from knowledge acquired lag, education..
put to them, the truth was bound all have to do that. Life's devoted a lifetime's work and The boy was given a number in make them disappointed, even sternest lesson is that everybody study to
own level, and children. of objects to look at, then they affronted. Yet they had to be must find his
few have much room to boast were taken away and he was convinced for the boy's sake. nsked to recall what they were-
apprehensiveness was about the level they attain. a memory test. He was shown directly due to the fact that since other objects and asked in any his releuldays began he had been
Fit For Job of his depth. whether they were alike or not, consistently out
harl moved Loo WHEN He was given beads to thread The classwork
LOO WH He had been a pattern within a time limit, quickly for him.
unable to
to get the base funda- he prescribed way.
He was given mentals into his head, and with some
put them it was hopeless to try. He was always praised to give him a reasonable educa- trying. tiy the time he left at simple design to copy,
tion. So he kept being put back. 16, he was fil to take Job In a
The next step was to take n Even
ven so, he wis HIY
iways nt the factory; not an important job re-
blood test, which showed a sugor THERE was an question of rush-boller of the elas.. a big-boy quiring a lot of initiative, But
defleiency in her system. This ing or worrying him. The sitting among sinalter children. he did his simple job well and When she arrived in Glasgow gave her teraving for sweet result was an accurate estimate "Couldn't we engage a lutor?" cheerfully.
in 1904 with a D. A. degree she thing of his intelligence in relation to his mother asked when this had
He's there still pleasant ties.
lectured for a time on anthema- things, which she had to satisfy, if incant stealing. The It proved that he been explained to her, "Perhaps the normal.
history, and psychology, eure! Her mother was advised who gets on well Gradually could do the things expected of a if he had special coaching.
her Interest in to give her plenty of Jain-ant five-year-old, and no more.
und con psychology became scientious worker. He is content and she embarked on a The psychologist reported this
pilfering stopped. shri the because he has confidence in his experiments which have
Not all cases, of course, are diretor,
con straightforward as that; and for finding to the clinic's
power to do what he has to do.
tinued throughout her life and all its successes, the clinic bus Nevertheless, Maybe he's slower than other: have laid the foundation of the
Dame Notre
Child grasping
Guldance it has proved that the study of new farts, und puzzled ucensionally
Clinie's successes, by argu-
child problems is a vital task. It It was a great blow to them,
ments or allusions that are loo
of these have already has helped the authorities to I su subtle for him.
home
described. Perhaps they had suspected the
But there ke
striking realise that n child's mental Rather Nervous
truth, but then where their own get you send him to a special differs only slightly in degree feature of all of them is the way health is just as important a3 THE Wong paydulogetiren are concerned parents who, where he will be taught from the rest of The point in which the scientifle side of its physical health.
hiu can't be expected to be coldly that will give him a chance apps le, with a well-rounded has been applied with a leaven .alone, will become a
is that he is Hving full and research into human behaviour
a fu likable younger scientific. They had tried to
me a maladjusted ltingh rather ner yours
persuade themselves that their to acquire a certain amount of personality. He owes that to the of sympathy and common senso, adult-and that is serious indeed.
This teen having
brought to child was merely a late develo- basic knowledge, and in time to day at the clinic when hla
Jy achieved parents
by team Ru
But what a "problem" child? would take a useful place in society won a victory over their parental clinic will that some day he
A child who and
to the Sister Marie Hilda will per her. She talked to hime
give you encouraged him to talk, go that come on with a rush and have although he will never altain the pride, decided that his content-
be examined by the answer: one who, in trying they had standard of a normally intelligent ment was worth more than their doctor, a psychiatrist, and to solve he might relax and do himself the brilliant
life's difculties, has person,"
initated ambitions for him--and psychologist. His justice. Then she gave him an imagined for him,
history and developed persistent, undesirable Parents
to tend
Finally the father and mother continued to be fond of him for vestigated by one of the social not yield to ordinary disciplinary intelligence test...
background home
will be In- forms of behaviour. which do These tests are the result of jealously ambitious their looked at each other, and sighed: what he was, rather than for
what he could never be...
workers-not many years' study of children by children than they ever were for "Well, if it is for the best...."
into other measures at home or school. prying people's affairs, but simply get- ting facts essential to a proper
A There are many of them, as is understanding of the child.
The reports u! these experts proved by the long waiting Rat are discussed, and from the dis of patients for the clinic. The cussions the treatment to be pity is that it can't deal with and
emotional disturbance. cause his mother was scared for home.
They were intelligent followed is
decided on: play more. But it is a voluntary or- often 0 first
child is him, or because the things be- people, and did their best to help. therapy, or speech therapy, appear to be leally married Very
organisation, subsidised to some and may themselves think the emotionally upset by the arrival Jonged to his brothers.
His mother tried to be less perhaps a simple adjustment of extent by the Church
and by a.e; yet come slight flaw in their of the second, and reacts in this "Can I really get playing with possessive. His brothers let him circumstances at home.
Glasgow Corporation. play with them more often.
This усог relationship, of which neither is way because he has a feeling of this?" he kept asking,
Sister Marle consciously Aware. JT12. V
Hilda's reb inserity.
It doesn't sound a spectacular
golden Jubilee. To thens of complete fulfilment and In this case the child had a
Getting at the root of the celebrate this event on appeal is or magical treatment, but it was trouble, especially with happines When Alais pecurs, feeling of insecurity, too, becllu.e
very being based on a correct assessment of
made
£10,000 to reveal itself by he was not being allowed to the daw may
TOWEVER, as time went on he the How in assert himself. He correct
young children, ju a unique extend the clinic and endow reasons for his trouble. problem in itself. How can you lectureship in child guidance. strange. Indirect means.
develop his personality, Ho-was.
the cause, and the model boat, which he trouble would disappear. Mako wrong with him when he doesn't its targel; partly because the get a child to tell you what's The appeal will certainly reach A five-year-old boy arrived at over-protected fenced off not made
to show to his the child feel that the Notre Dame Child Guidance only from dangers.but from the took home
constantly person Was
he was a know--and perhaps is hardly clinic does a job which is not to be verkoned with, not able to speak at all? Clinle one day with his mother: thing that a normal boy wants, brothers.
in quite the same way else- n well-dressed, cultured woman
done The treatment adopted was assured about his abilities. He just baby, and he would be
It was apparent as encouraged to play messify, relieved of the tension caused by lion test.
- It may be done by an associn- where partly because its
director little box. If you had met them right away that he badly tweeded he wanted to-especially with his subconscious rebellion against child's reaction to certain words affection of countless people.
very neat, nlec-looking play therapy.
For example, the has won the admiration and in the street you would have to gain confidence in himself. Heater, about which children with over-protection.
his complaint often had some
will be observed, and a lengthy If you met Sister Marie Hilda,
1
1. i
elinie
RAI
Sister Marie Hilda and then THE psychologist shook her they fared the unhappy task of breaking the news so the bay's father and mother.
'carcer
be more
for
head regretfully. "No, that would do more harm than good. It would increase the amount of work he had to tackle and con- fuse him stay further,
at
HE WAS KEPT A BABY TOO
A MAN
ה
waman may ayne
with saws,
inile with plensure. Yet the could hardly believe that he was visit the clinic was the result permitted to play
years 11f shanie.
Family Helped
inhibitions.
He
At the same
LONG
work.
A
goes
The maladjusted enild, left
for
Ile stayed at the clinic for pause or abnormal response to you would understand why; för a month. By that time the bed- any word may give the clue. Or she carries her honours lightly of misery, even of hammers and other tools which
time his family welting had stopped completely, he may be given toys to play and with real humility, with a would have been taken away were asked to co-operate by That was a year ago, and there with, and what he from him at home-either be giving him his proper place at has been no recurrence.
does with saving gift of humour and a then will be significant.
deep, sympathetle Insight.
For a reason that is painfully common nowadays. The boy was a bed-weiter. He had been all his short life. His parents had hoped he would grow out of it, but instead it had become worse, particularly after he went to school.
Every Morning
VERY mening there was the Mrome wretched business of washing and bed changing, which was driving his mother to the point of hysteria.
This is not n subject people like to talk about, It is generally kept secreta skeleton in the family cupboard. But in thia
case, every method of persuasion, threats and bribery having failed, the mother asked her doctor's advice, and he.recommended the clinic.
The buy was the youngest of three sons. In a talk with the social worker, the mother agreed that the two older boys were with him. sometimes Impallent Fond of him though they were, they were inclined to shut him out of their play, beenuse he was
facla
she
gmaller.
She revealed other significant She and her husband very
happy; but admitted that he was not de- monstrative, and was away from home a good deal. And she was living in a strange town, where she had few friends. Sometimes she felt very lonely.
Maladjusted
THAT, had all this to do with
W her youngest son's trouble?
Well, it appeared, that to semo extent he was emotionally. thin
en
starved. To make up for she, had kept on "mothering the h of the family long after ho had passed the baby stage. Sho wanted subconsciously" to keep him fled to her; and in the event, he had become maladjusted..
Unless it is due to a physleni wegknows bed waiting children can always be traced to
מ!
MAJENDIE
OF THE JETS
'Mr. Comet,'
Comet,' off to Singapore, passes 250,000-mile mark
MIORIAKI MATENDIE, QUIER, OF A COMET - FLANT- \\&\_the_plang=hty wolfe. * Higa working but the theory of munte,
By ARTHUR BRENARD
graphs and mathematical curves he has worked out in thesry on the ground.
Last November he forgot the Comet projcet long enough to marry Gwynneth, the, preity actress daughter of the vicar of Michael Majendie always Steke Pages, the Rev. D. H. wanted to be a selentist, and even Bryant-Bovan. as a boy found physics and figures fatelnating. This earned him the nickname of "The Pro tessor.
He became an M.A. at King's College, Cambridge. And in 1940 he joined the R.A.F.
"There is no doubt the 'flying bug got me," Captain Majendle
T 40,000ft. on a training teld me, and at the end of the A fight somewhere, be- wat I decided I could west use
tween London and Singa- my qualifications in civil avia- pore last week 32-year-old tion. Captain Michael Majendie
of B.O.A.C. completed 250,000 miles flying in the Comet,
"I joined B.0.A.C. BS This established him as the second pllat on their flying-
beats. world's most experienced airling jet pilot.
0
Majendle was soon busy with evolved a Captain Majendle is a unique his clide-rule. Ile product of the jet age. Still system of approach lights and listed as a junior captain by visual aids which has since be B.O.A.C., ho has brought a come internationally accepted. cclentine mind and a brilliant
When B.O.A.C.''s Comet academic background to the cold, hard struggle to give Flight was formed Majendle Britnin a world lend in jet air was chosen to head the flying transport-and keep her the creating an entirely new set of operations. He was faced with
rules for operating the Comet safely and economically at near- conle speeds and at heights never before reached by com mercial planes.
Now Captain Majendie is chief of B.O.A.C.'s Comet feet. This Ex-Coastal Cammind flying-boat skipper is: {.planeering" "Inter- He was the pilot én most of continentaljet routes and flying the early proving fights of the techniques that are netting a Comet.
world-wide standard.
Between fights hd worked He Is a petentie "back-room quietly at his office at London bay" who taken his slide-rule Airport or at this. home In Into the air and flies the fantastic Maldstead puifig hip din 500 miles an hour Comet by coveries on to paper."
In their tiny fat off Malden- head's main street Mrs Mafcadle is constantly reminded of her husband's aelentine work.
and flying
The bookshelves are packed with bocks on philosophy and physics, mathematics and logle. Magendie bought his wife a On her last birthday Caplain
mandolin.
"I'm trying to learn how to play it" Mrs Majandle told mo. "So is Michael, The only difference is that he is werking cut the theory of music with his silic-rule,*
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