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Show TRAVEL Family Trips Can Boost Your Child's IQ With these tips, your vacation travel can become a lifelong learning journey for your youngsters By VIRGINIA WARREN Author of "Tasted Wayt to CHILDREN it's surgery. Pazo not only shrinks hemorrhoids in most cases, but actually starts relieving contact-a- with high IQs come from fam- classroom on wheels. If your hemorrhoids need something more effective than Pazo... throbbing pain on Your Child Uorn" ilies who travel who go places and do things with them. Their family car is. a T . jnaybe Hlp nd for hours. In fact, this soothing relief begins within seconds after you finish applying Pazo. In moments, Pazo's anesthetic fonnula starts to ease the pain, quiets the itching and irritation. And, Pazo lubricates the sensitive area thoroughly-- in most cases, provides continuing relief for hours. Try Pazo, in suppository or ointment form. your hemorrhoids need something more effective than Pazo. . . maybe it's surgery. On the other hand, some youngsters with learning problems have never been out of their own neighborhood never have been farther than a few blocks from home. When we expose our children to new sights, sounds, and activities, they not only pick up new information their ability to learn is enhanced. That's why educators encourage family trips, both to nearby spots and across the country. But they warn parents that trips don't automatically result in learning. It takes a little planning and forethought Just a little extra effort can make your trip not only more educational but more fun, too. Here are somfe steps teachers suggest to ready your children for a travel expedition. Visit the library for articles and books about the places you'll be visiting. (Be sure the books are at your child's reading level.) One Washington, D.C., father did this before taking his children to Chesapeake Bay drive from home. a mere A book on the Bay revealed that the oyster shells the children were picking1 up had been left there by Indians. The shark's teeth, had been deposited there found they before man appeared. Get a map f bowing places of interest en route: historical sites, museums, planetariums, factories, dams. Sit down with your children and decide which to visit places that may tie in with their special interests. A few pieces of simple "field equipment" are helpful to have along. For example, carry a variety of containers. Children may want to collect rocks, shells, arrowheads, plants even such "livestock" as pollywogs, frogs, crickets, fireflies. Glass jars 45-min- Family Weekly, July IS, 1969 and milk containers make excellent carryalls. Plastic bags with their twister tops are good carriers for aquatic life. Take a notebook that can serve as a trip diary. One child may enjoy being the official recorder of the exciting events of each day. This helps him to observe and remember. Include paperback reference books on birds, trees, animals, insects, It's fun for Tommy to whip out that reference book when Mom sees an unusual bird or flower. It helps your children to develop the habit. "Let's- Read maps can be a great and easily accessible source of learning. Dave Garroway, in his book, "Fun on Wheels," says that after you teach the kids what the various map symbols stand for, what the scale of distance is, and how to locate different points, they should be able to: 1) tell the distance from one place to another; 2) find historical sites, state parks, Indian reservations; 3) identify the different kinds of roads indicated on the map freeways, good state roads, secondary roads, or 4) gravel and dirt locate airports, lakes, rivers, mountains; 5) tell the population of cities and towns which may be visited. According to the National Council wild-flowe- look-it-u- spring-buster- s; rs. for the Social Studies, what happens after your children come home from that trip is very important. Help them build on the travel information they have gathered in this way: Encourage them to make scrap-boocontaining snapshots, memenand information folders taken toes, at points of interest. Using the trip diary, have them write letters to friends and relatives describing the trip's high points. If they brought back plants, insects, shells or other specimens, help them set up a home "museum." If they showed unusual interest in something they saw airplanes or farms or marine life ask your librarian for books on the subject, at the right reading level. Dr. Richard C. Brown says, "A trip to CumberUmd Gap, Tenn., could inspire a study of the westward movement across the Appalachians, or perhaps to read about Daniel Boone. A visit to Hyde Park could lead to reading on almost any aspect of the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Gettysburg could lead to a number of areas of research, all the way from Lincoln to Eisenhower." In fact, with just a little forethought, that vacation trip could be the start of a learning journey that would never end for your child. ks |