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Admit Children: When I admit children I tell every parent of the provisions made by the education authority in case of need. Many are ignorant of these, others think they amount to charity, others again feel that to take advantage of them is scrounging and so is a cause for embarrassment. I have managed in all but a few cases to talk them out of this attitude, and to make them feel pride in a system which is there to provide the means to a full and trouble-free education for their children.
A twelve-year-old boy said, "I like being myself. I wouldn't want to be anything else." Children seem to reach a peak of self-acceptance around eleven or twelve years. They admit their strengths and weaknesses as in the following quotations from two eleven-year-old boys. The first wrote:
There is an inherent positive value in childhood itself. This attitude, according to Margaret Lowenfeld, is more characteristic of English culture than of the United States. English children depend less on adults; they live more in a world of children of different ages. Adults do not generally enter this world except when something happens and the children do not know what to do. Children and parents are absorbed, each in their own concerns. Consequently, parents do not discuss before children adult problems which they consider outside the understanding of children.
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