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THE CHINA MAIL SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT, DECEMBER 19, 1940.
There's a Joy For Every Age
"A Child Psychologist
hopping this eply: and, of course, investigate
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A further orders, tor how can she otherwise find out all the things in a vastly intriguing world which she wants to know?
First, something for Jane; she's not quite two. A bit too young for books and doll she lives in her own dynamic world where
So let's get her something that things appear to happen not wise -
and ly but too well She makes pai- will let her fill and empty,
she may make terns on the carpet with the con- something that tents of the coal-box; or finding patterns with, avoiding Mother's handbag the tips
Something to
Janc.
not quite two.
The
she's
family finance piece by piece on to the floor
All this because she's at the age when she feels the urge to fill and
retribution
painful
Lessons For Fingers
A bag of large, bright wonden ball with holes drilled through their waistlines, which she car thread upon a strek They're good idea; she can fill and empty. boxes with them, bun, Or a set of wooden nestboxes: she can 11 the big one with the smaller one, in their successive sizes, then tip them out and start again She can build a tower with them too; and If she knocks it aver -well, she'll be just as pleased to make an- other'
can destroy whenever the spirit moves her.
And she won't know that every the bits together time she filts again her fingers are having one
She'll enjoy washing them occasionally.
more lesson in control mother will.
But her
Another good idea is trolly with wooden cylinders tu fit in little holes, and bright cupped
John is three. He likes things balls to fit like heads upon the
are His ingers
still to to make. Six little soldiers cylinders. pull around with her until she's quite small, and they won't always tired, and then be
do exactly what he wants then to; but still, he likes to try. pieces!
knocked to
She enjoys a bit of destruction now and then; it gives her a sense of power in an adult-controlled Well, these are things she world.
Give Him A Hammer
He can join parts together; not with real nails
of
or screws,
course, but wooden pegs are easy. He'd like a box of bricks with holes and pegs to fit them, and a hammer to fix the parts together. The things he'll make won't look: like anything we recognise for a bit, but that doesn't matter. It's the Atting and hammering that he'll enjoy, because he needs it.
He won't tire of it easily, either: at his age he always wants to be making something. Every time he fts the parts together his fingers become a shade more skilful, and his brain associates cause and ef-
fect more easily.
Swings provide exercise.
Jigsaws and picture blocks are good for him, tou. If the pictures are good and recognisable, and the parts large enough for his little can I do?" the answer will be in fingers to control, he'll play with the cupboard! them for hours.
Cynthia is four. She loves dolls, of course. She'd like a set of doll's clothes to put on and take off; she'll enjoy washing them oc- casionally, too. A time will come when she won't be anxious to do any thing so useful, so we'll make the most of it, and teach her while she
wants to learn!
She's starting school quite soon She knows her letters: By the sound, of course, not by name We can buy for her a box of loose letters with which she can build her own little words
meal.
Those Soldiers
We preach peace and practice war. For Saturdays and holidays there are always forts and armies; and guns and pistols are very dear
We may
to a small boy's heart. lament the warlike tendencies of our sons. But man has fought and hunted for the preservation of his race since the beginning of Time; and the instinct to prize his weapons is passed on to each gon- eration.
There are toys, too, for physcal And Jy" Well, he's at development. Motors, fairy-cycles, and school; he started in September swings--all provide exercise
They make the children grow. The problem with him is the rest-
the keep them warm and out in ing-time after his midday
weather For food subjected to inmediate fresh air when winter and perpetual motion must in- prohibits ordinary playing out of evitably lead to Trouble; but quite doors. certainly he will le low and say nuffin' only if he's got plenty to do.
They are of tremendous value, too; the elements of balance are so easily learned in early years, when a tumble here and there is part of the fun, and doesn't really matter. This is a very real job H. of work these toys can do, if the and children may develop a sense of without the admonition security of that black-edged voice: "Take care." Unless of course it's abso-
He can make patterns by plait ing strips of coloured paper, or fit bright balls on a holed black back- ground into a mosaic design, can have pictures of ships castles and all sorts of exciting things on cards, with holes at half-inch intervals along the out- line, and, with A olunt needle and rainbow wool, watch his own coloured picture grow.
lutely necessary. rafila
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