Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Times
Thursday, February 9, 1961, page 48 (of 80)
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Let's Stop Slamming Even grownups need a good "self-image—" and so
"OUR KIDS ARE GETTING a rough ride," says Mr. Arthur E. Wolters, Superintendent of Schools in the pleasant Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois. "We are pinning something on them all the time." It is coming from all directions. Social scientists tell us that suburban young people today are coddled and conformist, overprotected and overorganized. Magazines and newspapers have been devoting considerable space to describing how immature and irresponsible they are in spite of all their advantages—the good schools they go to, their pleasant houses, and their supposedly healthy environment. The same negative approach was apparent even at the last White House Conference on Children and Youth. Is the life our children lead really so damaging? And isn't it possible that another kind of damage may be done, not by suburban living but by presenting only one side of a picture, and perhaps the least typical? Psychologists agree that how we are seen has a profound influence on how we grow up. We all need a good "self-image" if we can manage to find one. In the case of these "coddled" and "conformist" children of ours I suspected that, prophets of doom to the contrary, a very good image was also there if you wanted to look for it. So like the reporters and social scientists before me, I picked on a thriving, typical suburb—Highland Park—and set out to interview young people themselves and those who have had years of close association with them, their school administrators and teachers and social-service workers. What do they think about the way the children are growing up? "There seems to be some malady that besets people who study suburbia," says Mrs. Martha Winch, director of a non-profit family-counseling agency, which is active in Highland Park. "They look us over, talk with many of us, and see only what is not going as well as it might. This is then reported, solemnly or sensationally, to the exclusion of the countless good things that surround us. It appears that we are a sad lot, indeed, with our children falling apart at the seams. In my own experience and that of this agency, most of the young Suburbia Today, February 1961