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

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There's a Joy For Every Age

4A Child Bychologist.

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

morning, a long list in my

till further orders, for how can moves her. she otherwise find out all the

And she won't know that every things in a vastly intriguing world time she fits the bits together again her fingers are having one

First, something for Jane; she's not quite two. A bit too young for books and dolls; she lives in her own dynamic world where things appear to happen not wise- ly but too well. She makes pat- terns on the carpet with the cou- tents of the coal-box; or finding Mother's handbag she tips

the

Something for not quite two.

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 anci

which she wants to know?

So let's get her something that will let her All and empty. and something that

she may make patterns with. avoiding painful retribution.

Lessons For Fingers

1

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, too. Or a set of wooden nestboxes; she can All 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 trolly mother will.

fl in

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course, but wooden pegs are easy. He'd like a box of bricks with holes and pegs to fit them, and h hammer to fix the parts together, The things he'll niake won't lool; like anything we recognise for a bit, but that doesn't matter: It' the fitting 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 taking something. Every time he fits the parts together his fingers become a shade more skilful, and his brain associates cause and el- fect more easily.

Swings provide exercise.

Jigsaws and picture blocks are good for him, too. 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 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 name. 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.

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 tingers

still ground into a mosaic design. He can have pictures of ships and castles and all sorts of exciting things on cards, with holes at half-inch intervals along the out- line, and, with а olunt raffia needle and rainbow wool, watch

Another good iden is a with wooden cylinders to little holes, and bright cupped balls to fit like heads upon the cylinders. Six little soldiers to pull around with her until she's quite small, and they won't always tired, and then be knocked to do exactly what he wants them pieces!

to: but still, he likes to try.

Give Him A Hammer She enjoys a bit of destruction now and then; it gives her a sense of power in an adult-controlled He can join parts together; not world. Well, these are things she with real nails 01 screws, of

his own coloured picture grow.

And when he says: "But what

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

to a small boy's heart. We may larrient 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 cách gen- eration.

There are toys, too, for physical development. Motors, fairy-cycles. swings--all provide exercise and make the children grow. They keep them warm and out in the fresh alr when winter weather 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 abso- lutely necessary.

on these find.

Christmas shopping lines is tremendous, you'll And not expensive, either.

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