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Show DO NOT REPRES8 THE CHILD Whqn your child ig racing and Jumping llko a wild Indian or choo-choolng choo-choolng up and down tho room like a panting engine, do not try to stop him and make him sit still and be quiet. Never Btlflo a child's activity. When a child is active for activity's sake and play no longer satisfies him glvo him his owfl little duties and responsibilities of a slight naturo, however, that will not tax him, yet at tho snrao time will not be regarded regard-ed as slight by him. Even n child feels that tho consciousness of duty gives Independence. Children weary after a tlmo of the almlessness of play. They see others busy about them. The boy picks up tho hammer, tho girl tho scissors, to help you, but Is told: I can do better and quicker alone. After several Instances In-stances of the kfnd tho desire to be useful, to develop hands and eyes, is stifled, almost In the beginning. More and moro the impulse of helping help-ing fades away and the waste, energy, ener-gy, misdirected, runs to mischief and fretfulncss. Let tho child try; teach it to use hammer and scissors, and let it make blunders, if taeed, be, for they are the . first steps, In a small scale to In-dustry In-dustry corrected and guided by the I patient mother. I It takes less time in the end to j train a child to usefulness than to correct and punish the faults that 1 camo from misdirected energy. I Glvo your child an opportunity to j bo useful. Let him run, shout and Jump, and do you yourself rejolco In tho war whoop of your blessed little I Indian. ' ''i j |