Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-06-06 | Page 10 | Daily Health Service

Daily Health Service B By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN I A little help a pleasant word of praise coming from you will vill enable your child to form good habits and develop properly much faster laster thane thin than he e would If It left left alone Children generally learn by tice lice From Infancy they begin to acquire the necessary for Instance to feed teed themselves and soon they know how to handle a spoon correctly and how to drink from rom a cup A small boy gets on a bicycle and nd promptly falls taUs oft off With a little practice he learns how to balance himself successfully coordinating his muscles In such manner that balance is maintained and he Is Isable ablo able to go forward Eventually he learns to ride the bicycle so well that his a actions ions are quite automatic and he docs does not even hold the handlebars In propelling propelling propelling pro pro- himself forward This is learning by establishing a habit The Intelligent child learns also atso by wh what t is known as the trial and error method For example it will sample a new food substance and If It attracted will e eat t it again It may for example try to put on its stockings while standing up Eventually it sits down and pulls on the stockings finding that the process Is carried out much more easily in this manner If the child is intelligent it will thereafter r sit down before pulling on its stockings s if it not the child may go on day after alter day trying to to put on the stockings s while standing up Children have to have time for learning Of at great importance In getting suitable reactions in learning is what the psychologists call a satisfying satisfying satisfying satis satis- effect If It an activity is successful suc sue pleasing and satisfying to a child the child Is more likely to repeat repeat re repeat re- re peat that activity Much depends therefore on a suitable amount of praise in connection connection connection con con- with any new achievement and suitable instruction as to its value in daily life The way to cause any person to learn Is to make learning able A dry lecture can make learning exceedingly ly unpleasant and children do not get on well weli when the teachers are dull Many of the act activities of or the child which seem to be antisocial and unsatisfactory unsatisfactory unsatisfactory un un- un- un satisfactory become ver very useful if diverted into proper fields A considerable part of ot the satisfying satis satis- tying Cing effect of any performance is isan isan an 10 Interest developed in that per Children do not want to learn except when learning is pleas pleas- ing lag If their interest is developed however they have the satisfying effect which will certainly age learning Every child differs from every other child and it is b necessary for parents and teachers tc to have a good understanding of the nature of the child in developing Its ability to coordinate muscle action with mental mental mental men men- tal control