| Show Home Education I The Childs Child's First School is the Family Froebel tUI Fr Issued by tM the Kindergarten Association 8 West Street New York City These articles will appear in our columns ADJUSTMENTS ESTHER HULL DOOLITTLE I No Paul is not like other chil- chil chilI children children I dren his mother explained to the I smiling kinde g teacher lie He cannot put on his coat and rub rub- rubbers rubbers I bers or run about about- She inter inter- interrupted herself to address the boy who was edging his way over to the sand table Paul Paul be careful you'll 0 fall You see she continued lie was partly paralyzed when he was wasa I a baby and has never become strong Indeed poor Paul who stood I there listlessly taking it all in wa was of much use according to his mother Miss liss Taylor smiled and promised to watch over him carefully though inwardly resolving ing that before long lie he should be abble to do veT very much as the other children did Acting in accordance with this idea she treated the boy so nearly like the rest that one nc might have thought she had forgotten all bOllt his mothers mother's warnings To Tobe Tobe be sure his marching was just a pitiful sort of shuffling at first but Miss Taylor while being watchful that he did not overdo took it for granted that he hc would be in line with the rest Each day his feet rw more sure and at last the great day arr arrived when he was chosen to le lead d the march So it was too with other activities of ites of the kindergarten his lIis inability to put box box covers on neat neatly ly Iy in ct th the general clumsiness of his fingers was consistently ig- ig ignored nored his lIis were ere praised and anda a he hc early manifested t van I toward skill kill in col color r choosing and i was hi made ot of ber before great t joy e his mates I Daily the strained expression of i iI I his face relaxed a little and its waxen pallor was gradually re- re replaced placed by a more tinge II Toward the close of the term Pauls Paul's mother again visited the school I dont don't see how you OU did dd it she said aid smiling smiling gratefully at the teacher She had gazing from the window at her son play play- playing ing ing hall ball with some other boys and andI her heart rejoiced I Just b by expecting him to be like I the rest Miss Taylor replied He was afraid poor child You I see he hart had been so vcr very sick that you ou couldn't believe lie he could ever i be well again that it And AndI I II unconsciously he was trying to I live lic up tip to hat was required and toI I expected of him I changed the re- re requirements I andI and expectations that's all she finished laughing Many lany children have exper- exper I ass an illness sometimes even evenI evena I a slight illness suffer as did little I Paul from the lack pf pf- pf a normal attitude toward them thelnon on the part of other members of the family be That which is desirable should be expected or the th child is liandi- liandi handicapped capped There is always a need need need-at at atI I such a 3 time for freedom to make adjustments and the wise parent will willse se that the child has it I In my study of psychology I Ih h have e been especially interested in problems of childhood I think one could hardly overemphasize the importance of the kindergarten as asp's ps p's agency for the socialization ad gen gen-cral dev development et of I I thel M thy Prof sor sor of nd I nl Cl g |
