SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1935.
the
nursery
The Teasing Habit
WE
YE. cannot dismiss teas- ing just by admitting that it is a common com- plaint. If we scrutinise it a little more closely we cannot fail to see that often we in- clude under the blanket term situations which arise from varied motives, and which range in their effect from harmless or even innocently amusing pranks to pernicious
meanness,
Much of the reasing of young children is simply an attempt to ret a rise out of the other fel- low. It becomes important only when the same child is always the butt, or if one child is the chronie tease. It is not always the older. child who teases the younger. How often does mother's little pet become brother's little pest There are some children whose only contact
their older with brothers and sisters is through teasing and who seek revenge for their own littleness by bringing down wrath on the head of the stronger one. The problem here is one of understanding and man- aging. The child has given us a clue to his own difficulties and it remains for us to teach him a better way to manage.
Though much teasing is a per
In- fectly acceptable and even teresting circumstance of family life. it all depends upon the way it is done and the reasons why a particular person uses that part! cular way to make himself felt. Teasing that really worries us is ele- compounded with a strong ment of cruelty. To be different a from the crowd among children still means, in altogether too many cases, to be inferior to 1 The child with a diferent
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from his companions or a differ- eat way of speaking may be the target for taunts and gibes.
Each home can do its own bit toward a better understanding of child nature and each home can - try to give its own chilken a more human point of view toward dif- ferences. But the general level rises very slowly and in the mean- time some children suffer exces. sively and unnecessarily. Some evéa develop warped personal- ties, from which they only par- tially recover in later years..
sease
Many grown-ups seem to lose every scrap of common they ever had when they try to talk to children. They are ill at ense and their usual method of covering their inability is to tease. Teasing in itself is an exciting process and there are many people who derive definite pleasure from it The response is quick and very often amusing. but it cannot be justified as a legitimate pursuit.
Even when. a child seems to enjoy being teased it is inadvis able. The chronic teaES is en-
weakness joying his **
and many times his own cruelty in the process. Morryver the child who is habitually teased often be- irritable and unhappy. This very irritability calls further teasing and the unavoid- -able result is an endless chain of unfortunate explosions that react badly on the temper of the child and the relationship of the child with others..
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A family whose medium of ex- change is teasing develops thine harsher, more suspicions qualit- It ies that endanger harmony. is a good thing to be alert; but it is exhausting to have to be continually on guard Family. life must not be robbed of its humour and gaiety by ruling out teasing altogether the harmful effect depends entirely On the basic relationship which exists within the group. If there are underlying feelings of envy, jes- lousy, depreciation, disappoint- ment, and unreasonable criti cism, then teasing will bring these attitudes more and more, iny to the open. The home should be a preparation for Life Foutside, and we must prepare our children to take the rebuffs of the world with whatever firmness of char- acter we can help them to de- velop.
If our teasing merely adds to the child's feeling of in- security and inferiority, if it makes him conscious of his short- strengthen- comings instead of
ing his ability to overcome them, we shall have accomplished the want to very, things we would zroid.
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