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Show HnanaaaaaaaaMaaBiva Your Baby And Mine By MTBTLI MIItB K LA BSD LKT Miaotllinn TBI MATliBAL COUBCI Tha badUma ftory rlla la abaanrad ronatlanUouaty In atoat bouaabelda. Hila laat half hour bafora badUma lg amtnaatly aultad la tha ajuiat raad tng af lha old faaorltaa. for aMat chit-Iran chit-Iran want tha aama lorlaa or and avar again, and hand braalhlaaaly vm tha mothar'i ahouldar, awaiting lha familiar worda and fraatlnf tbam ach Uma with lha aaaia dallghk cmLO w Am BJtmrnort Ttil rapatiUon land la bora tha pa ran I who cant undarttand what fun It hi for tha child to haar lha aaaia tory or tha aama nuraary rhyma ao many limaa. but It la by ataana of Ihla! rapatllion that chlldran laarn and, having laamad, thay fat a conitanl da-light da-light In bainf. aaaurad that lha worda in Ihalr own haad and tha worda ml tb rhyma match axartly. Larking Una rapatiUon. at lha child a awn Inrtanca. chlldran aa not' raadily mamorti tha atoria and1 yaraaa thay haar. Whan tha mothan alia down with an unintaraatad child and aar, "Now, you rapaat thy aftar ma," aha lata no raaull whalavar. Mamorltlng takaa placa only whan tha child Intaraat and unforcad. II CHILD BACKWABOr Mr. A. Z. B. la ttpaat bocauaa har child know nona of tha familiar nuraary rhyma. Bha viaw thia aa aa mdlratlon that bar child lacking mm ability an)oyad by othar chlldran. chll-dran. It I mora probabla, aftar raad ing har Utter, that ona auipact aha ha gona about Ihta In tha wrong way. robbing tha rhyma of thalr placa at antartaJnmant and making them am Ilka lannni. Mr. A. C B. wanU to know: "Do you think child of tw laarna murh by mamoriiing 7 I try to teach my lit tie girl nuraary rhymea and ah won't repeal thing I tell her la My friend have children of her age and they ran all memoriae ctnriea. Thoae frlenda think my child I backward, but ah u aa mart In other way aa chil dren of her own age. She talk, but will never convene with (trangen She only talk when ah think no on I lutening What would you ad viae n to dot" LKT CHILD BNJOT tBTMIl I You have a warped view of tha val-!ue val-!ue and meaning of nuraary rhyme They ara for Ui child i n)oymnt. not a mean of "showing off. Your intittence on tha child' repealing the rhyme ftr you, nd your effort to thrust her forward In the company of strangers have resulted In exceaslve timidity and a dislike for nursery irhvmea. I Read to the child dally. Read the! same slorie and tha aama rhymes. providing h enjoy them. Never lask her to repeat a thing. Let her ab-Isorb ab-Isorb these stones because she enjoys them and I Interested In them. Children Chi-ldren memorize very easily under : thoae circumstance. It la an ability which I very ofien lost a the child grow older. But merely reading a I thing over and over or hearing It read ; repeatedly I quite sufficient to Im plant It In lha child's mind without Ithere being any conscious effort whatever. |