Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-15 | Page 15 | Creative Instincts of Children Thrive

CREATIVE GREAT IVE INSTINCTS OF CHILDREN THRIVE 1 5 k 4 S w Left Leff to fo right Webster Webby Orval Adams 8 is s engrossed in his book while Preston Adams 12 Tony Wayne 9 Arthur Sweet 14 and Peggy Sweet 10 prepare a snack in the s shack hack they have built and equipped themselves I Growing Boys I. I Find Outlet For Ener Energies es 1 Childrens Children's social activities change with their age They accomplish j in hi play what their elders do as worK world When your son wants to build a boat make a radio set nail up a ashack a ashack shack in the back ack yard and you press him for a reason many times the he Oh just for fun Isn't reason enough to satisfy your parental parent l sense of orderliness and you forbid him the right to do so sj J Frustration of your childs child's s tendencies ten ten- for normal social activities will unless you help him to co con com compensate In other ways crop out in rn unsocial acts Make a list of the un ui unsocial unsocial social acts your child has evidenced and see if it you can trace them to their source Like as not roost most of ot them are there as a result of at frus fru ru I Arthur Sweet and Ted Adams suffer suffer sutter suf sut- fer ter no such frustrations They to took tooka k ka a large packing case as the nucleus for a shack to be set up back of th the garage of Mr and Mrs Arthur Sweet When they outgrew th the shack as they did several times in inthe inthe inthe the three years of Its evolution the they tore it down and built a bigger and better one with an annex The They wired the shack safely with plugs planted grass out in front installed a i radio an electric plate an electric fan even a bed The annex mad made sure their feet didn't hang out l in inthe Inthe the cold on nights when the boys slept there ij I The shack not only satisfied the creative instincts of at these boys boys it it provided a delightful rendezvous fo for c children hildren of the two families and of neighbors to mingle naturally and wholesomely In a social way fo for whenever there were a few children tf t there here was a party whether the re refreshments re-i re ts f consisted of toasted s they made themselves o ojust oc oz j just toasted shins No food tasted ike like l that they prepared themselves Creative instincts satisfied lead children to tb fit easily into the world of ot work and play when their more moi adult years demand they do so 1