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IF THEY ARE NINE

By Martha Blount

TEET the nine-year-olds

average height 50in.; aver age chest circumference 25in.

14-THE LITTLE WORLD

The boy's muscles are OF DON DAMILLO, by Giovanni Guaroschy "Start beginning to show in arms. them on this young and they'llega, and shoulders. read it all their lives."

girl's waist and hips

of 10

-

In schoolwork he can

is hardest.

add,

Can read fluently (giris often a little better than boys).

Does not like words of more than two syllables yet. Can write in ink and join fettere,

Can copy, all simple objects in The drawing but does not yet grasp are three dimensions and shadows. Will walk seven miles without undue strain. Dreams alat- often has nightmares,

feet on

М

15. KING SOLOMON'S more feminine. RING, by Konrad Z. LorezS. Bol boy and girl can balonce "Adventure stories for both for distance

narrow horizontal bar; both can boys and girls,”.

climb a rope and vault a horse using pummel handles.

MOST ACTIVE

16. BIRD OF DAWNING, by John Masefeld, "A wonder- ful book about the old clipper that salled to Britain from Aus- tralls with cargoes of wheat,"

PONIES. by Pullen Thompson. Josephine "This is really THE age for the horse cruze."

17.-51X

18-WE HUNTED HOUNDS, by Christine Fullen Thompson, This is unother of the same writtca by Josephine kind Thompson's sister,"

FOR ALL AGES

19. THE HAPPY PRINCE, "A delicious by Oscar Wilde. fairy story."

20ORLANDO THE MAN- MALA" E CAT. by Kathleen liale. I still read this myself. The children liked it so much that we asked Kathleen Hale to paint a portrait in olis of her cat. Pyramus, for us and she did."

Marked differences in now appearing- boys reacting to thought and logic-irls needing emotional angles towards Ke.

Now you reap the benefits, or disadvantages from your years or parenthood. Physical type quite clear-the The child's character athletic build of good calves, halls are clear to outsiders,

and small trunk and shapely limbs, Grent emotional changes *ro the short sturdy "pyknik" type going on in the nine-year-old. with large trunk; the highly- The Arst need of this nge is strung, large-headed "intellee- calm; the second, security; the

Third, simple routine.

tual" build.

THEIR NEED

are

Sight

perfect, bearing!

palate 13 excellent but

now settled into foods yuu bove

Holh parents his rst nine given him for

essential. The world is looming big and yours

He is open, honest and rendy close and affectionate,

uncerialin-you two must be

daring

to join in group games. She is "boyish" and In athletics, elimbing high trees

ú

Books are must not picture and comic strips, but

biographical

classics, Read

and learning to swim (breast-e great adventure, fairy and stroke) before the boy.

Boys tend to be shy and mix them aloud.

Both boy with their own sex. Girls can definite moral training. They and girl need be precocious and want to show know the difference off in recitations or music, between alle and the truth, between their possessions and other people'a.

DREAMS

now

The boy admires courage This is the most active above all Virtues. Teach hlia physical age of the child.

the courage needed to be At school the boy likes team honourable towards other boys. games, football, hide-and-seck, The girl admires beauty and 21,

22-WHIZZ FOR and mock battles; the girl will affection, Teach her how to ATOMS, DOWN WITH SKOOL, enjoy netball, rounders, and make the home, a garden and and HOW TO BE TOPP, l | musical and singing games most, herself beautiful at all levels. Illustrated by Honald Searle,

Imagination is highly active: Write letters of thanks.'' Tell "No child should be without Plays, dressing-up, and adven her why

tures are part of the day's life. things.

them."

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