From Alison Ross, Lyttelton, New Zealand
Here is an addition to Melinda Wenner Moyer’s parenting advice that you highlight in your review of her book, Hello, Cruel World! I was at the bookshop of Otago University in New Zealand in the 60s when a small child accidentally demolished a stand of books(24 May, p 26). As the distraught mother attempted to salvage things, a fellow shopper, a professor of psychiatry, boomed out: “Reassure the child!”
