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THE CHINA MAIL SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT, DECEMBER 19, 1940.

There's a Joy For Every Age

"A Child Psychologist

moves her.

course, but, wooden pègs 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 louk like anything we recognise for a bit, but that docan't matter. It's that the fitting and, hammering 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 fits the parts together his fingers become a shade more skilful, and his brain associates cause and ef- fect more casily.

..

Swings provide exercise.

Jigsaws and picture blocks are good for him, too. If the pictures are good and recognisable, and the And she won't know that every parts large enough for his little can I do?" the answer will be in

the bits together fingers to control, he'll play with the cupboard! time she fits again her fingers are having one them for hours.

WENT Christmas shopping this empty; and, of course, investigate can destroy whenever the spirit

morning, a long list my till further orders, for how can all the she otherwise find out 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 dolls; she lives in where her own dynamic world things appear to happen not wise- ly but too well. She makes pat- terns on the carpet with the con- tents of the coal-box; or finding Mother's handbag she tips the

Something for not quite two.

So let's get her something that will let her ill and emply, and she may make something that

painful patterns with, avoiding retribution.

Lessons For Fingers

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A bag of large, bright wooden balls with holes drilled through their waistlines, which she can thread upon a stick. They're good idea; she can fill and empty boxes with them, tou. Or a set of wooden nestboxes; she can fill the big one with the smaller ones in their successive sizes, then tip them out and start again. She can build a tower with them, too; and if she knocks it over-well, she'll be just as pleased to make an- other'

She'll enjoy washing them occasionally.

more lesson in control. But her

Another good idea is a trolly mother will. with wooden cylinders to fit in ttle holes, and bright cupped balls to fit like heads upon the to Six little soldiers pull around with her until she's knocked to tired, and then be pieces!

"ylinders. Jane, 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

Cynthia is four. She loves She'd like a set dolls, of course. of doll's clothes to put on and take off; she'll enjoy washing them oc- casionally, too. A time wit come when she won't be anxious to do anything 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 nams. We can buy for her a box of loose letters with which she can build her own little words.

And Jimmy? Well, he's at school; he started in September. The problem with him is the rest- ing-time after his midday meal. For food subjected to immediate and perpetual motion must in evitably lead to Trouble; but quite certainly he will lie low and say nuffin' only if he's got plenty to do.

and

He can make patterns by plait- ing strips of coloured paper, or fit John is three. He likes things bright balls on a holed black back- to make. His fingers are still ground into a mosaic design. He quite small, and they won't always can have pictures of ships du exactly what he wants them castles and all sorts of exciting

things on cards, with holes to: but still, he likes to try.

half-inch intervals along the out- line, and, with a olunt raffia Give Him A Hammer

needle and rainbow wool, watch his own coloured picture grow.

And when he says: "But what

She enjoys a bit of destruction now and then: it gives her a sense

adult-controlled He can join parts together; not of power in an

or screws, world. Well, these are things she with real nails

of

at

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 gea- eration.

There are toys, too, for physical development. Motors, fairy-cycles, swings--all provide exercise and They make the children grow. keep them warm and out in the weather fresh air when winter prohibits ordinary playing out of doors.

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 of work these toys can do, if the children may develop a sense of security without the admonition of that black-edged voice: "Take care." Unless of course it's, abyo- lutely necessary.

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