--- Title: Spoiled Child Big Problem For Schools, Adler Says Description: Nassau Daily Review, Freeport, N. Y., 6 March 1934, pp. 1-2. Unsigned report of Alfred Adler's lecture on child guidance to parents and teachers in the auditorium of Hempstead High School, Hempstead, N. Y., on the evening of 5 March 1934, introduced by Dr. Leo Moldenke of the Hempstead child guidance clinics; the pampered child, social training in the schools, the case of a spoiled boy. Author: Periodista sin firma URL: https://adler.school/archivo/adler/cronicas/original/1934-03-06%20Spoiled%20Child%20Big%20Problem%20For%20Schools%2C%20Adler%20Says --- # SPOILED CHILD BIG PROBLEM FOR SCHOOLS, ADLER SAYS ## Social Maladjustments Can Be Traced To Home Pampering, Psychologist Declares Spoiled children are the ones who constitute the chief problem for the schools, according to Dr. Alfred Adler, internationally famous psychologist, physician, educator and expert in child guidance, who spoke to an audience of parents and teachers in the auditorium of Hempstead high school last night. **Are Pampered At Home** The social maladjustments of children can be traced to the fact that they are pampered at home by their parents, asserted Dr. Adler. The best way to bring up a boy or girl, he said in substance, is to treat them in a normal way and not to play favorites with them. It is kinder to them in the long run because it saves them from being hurt when they bump up against the realities of life away from their mother's apron strings, according to the noted psychologist. Individuals who do not get along well socially in school have formed an undesirable pattern of life at home, he asserted. Children who are pampered by their parents, he said, have not received the proper training that will make them fit readily into the society of others. **Social Side Neglected** The problem of preparing children to meet the social problems they must confront in school and afterward rests not only with the parents but with (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) # PAMPERED CHILD SCHOOL PROBLEM ## Social Maladjustments Traced To Home By Noted Psychologist At Hempstead (Continued From Page One) the educational authorities as well, asserted Dr. Adler. Schools, he said, have a tendency to concentrate too much on the scholastic side of a child's education, to the neglect of the social side. Social training as well as scholastic training is essential to the proper education of children and should be given in the schools, he declared. To illustrate the effect that pampering at home may have upon a child, Dr. Adler related the case of a boy who had received so much attention from his mother that he came within the category of a "spoiled child." During his first three years in school, the boy was under teachers who treated him much as his mother did at home. **Took Means To Get It** As he got into the higher grades, however, he came under the usual type of teacher who makes no special distinction among the children in her charge. It was then the boy began to develop undesirable traits. Failure to get the special consideration that he had been used to, he took certain means to get it. One way was to steal candy and give it to his fellow pupils in order to be popular with them. The boy inherently was a normal child and would have been no different from other children if his parents had not pampered him so much that he expected special attention from everyone, according to Dr. Adler. Parents themselves must have an understanding of child phychology if they wish to avoid making their children eccentrics, he asserted. The audience that heard Dr. Adler filled the high school auditorium to capacity. He was introduced by Dr. Leo Moldenke of Hempstead, who is in charge of the Hempstead child guidance clinics. The visit of the noted child phychologist to Hempstead was arranged by Dr. William A. Gore, superintendent of schools. The program included selections by the Hempstead high school band. A reception, attended by prominent residents of the community, was given for Dr. Adler at the home of Mrs. R. G. Booth. Hikh school students acted as ushers. They were the Misses Gertrude Belcher, Shirley Ives, Adelaide Naars, Winifred Dickey, Daisy Merry and Edwina Cooney and Robert Greer, Wesley Franklin, Bert Smith, Walter Peters, Robert Monroe, Robert Whitcomb, Harold Sykes and Robert Smith. --- *Fuente:* "Spoiled Child Big Problem For Schools, Adler Says. Social Maladjustments Can Be Traced To Home Pampering, Psychologist Declares", *Nassau Daily Review*, Freeport, N. Y., Tuesday, 6 March 1934, p. 1, cols. 2-3, continued on p. 2, col. 1, under the heading "Pampered Child School Problem"; unsigned. Transcribed from the page images at fultonhistory.com (Freeport NY Daily Review 1934 Jan-Apr, files -0539 and -0540), rendered at 300 dpi; the OCR of p. 2, which mixes the columns, was used only for orientation. The misprints "phychology", "phychologist" and "Hikh" are kept. The same day's society page reported the reception after the lecture at the home of Mrs. Russell G. Booth (fultonhistory.com, file -0547; not transcribed). Neighbouring items on both pages omitted.