Show School and Home Hom by w Dr Doryl Daryl J. J McCarty Executive Secretory Utah Education Association Open your eyes Some years ago a Boy Scout was frustrated about a merit badge requirement that hed he'd tried for weeks to meet The task To dive to the bottom of a swimming pool pick up a brick that had been dropped there and bring that brick out of the pool The Scout worked for or weeks and even though he swam like a trout he still couldn't do it One day a friend told him it was simple All you do is dive into the water wafer keep your eyes on the brick I Wait a minute said the frustrated Scout You mean people can open their eyes underwater ter Sure said the friend Try it The Scout dropped a brick into the swimming pool dived in opened his eyes picked up the brick and got it out of the pool on the first try The moral of that little story is that sometimes we take lake it for granted that people know more than they really do The tragic thing about this is that it can cause a lot of lost years For example I once knew a aboy aboy aboy boy who didn't realize that trees had leaves until he was in his teens He lie was a bright able young man who had a curable problem Trouble was nobody recognized it soon enough This boy was very near sighted Somehow he didn't get getto getto getto to the when he should have The day he came home with his new e eyeglasses he looked at a tree and asked his mother this question What are those things on that tree leaves she said Ive always thought trees were big green blobs II the boy said I didn't know they had lea leaves ves If U you see your child continually continually continually con con- plagued by some problem talk about it Chances are it can be resolved with a afew afew afew few intelligent such questions as the ones that Boy Scout must have asked about underwater swimming Sometimes the only thing we need to open our eyes is a piece of key information |