Show GOING TO SCHOOl AT THREE YEARS Shall we tend send our year three year three old olds I to school American teachers teacher tea cheri at their ye- ye recent r cent convention con la in I announced that thIs Is It to be the step t p in education Tho The mothers arent aren't arent aren't going tolne to like that WhY a bowl howl will go up when they hear bear that the th teachers Ire are thinking t ot of taMar the babies right out of or their arms arm Send roy my baby who can cn hardly walk to school I guess not The educators educator tore tors tor dont don't know more about babies than their mothers mother do The IThe Tb In nwe to o that Is II YU I and anI no As s a matter ot of o tact t ot the ItU stu- stu students dents tu-dents dents of or edu education and of ot child psychology do really know more about the th mind minds ot of babies than their Dut But till still the tb moth moth- mother era er are are ar motU mostly cio right bt For For they know that no one on cares carea care as a much muchas muchas muchas as a child mother moth r and that car car lug Ing counts for a a good cod deal Dut Cut there tb r Is II a way In la which the tho mothers are arc ar wrong Mothers Mother do not realize bow how much ot of a achIld's chIlds chIld's child character ma may be b formed before he be Is six Ix lx ears years old Scientists Scientists who ho have made care care- careful careful careful ful experiments experiment with children of oC the nursery school age ie from Crom two tWI to six all have hav learned that the the pert per of ot little children can be greatly modified and anI Improved through modem modern methods method It Is during this early period that most of the problems which a mother meets during the difficult years years- ears of adolescence may be It Is then that permanent Inter Interests eats ests ma may be b awakened wrong traits of ot character r corrected fear and shyness overcome and physical cal growth crowth greatly affected All this can be done It If teach teacher ers era er are ar really well trained and capable to cope with the task But Dut what the tb educators educator do not cot seem eem to realize Is the bigness ot of that It C It If all children are am to tobe tobe tobe be sent tent to nurse nursery schools hun bun hundreds and thousands of ot these teachers with the hearts heart of o moth mother ers era er and the training of ot scientists must be found and that is no easy task Granting the Importance ot or the therl right ht training In the early years gears there ere Is still sUII another and It would better seem eem to some ome a better way Why not send tend the th mothers not the babies to school Why Why- not train the mothers mother In some ome ot of the modera mod modern era ern principles principle ot or child psychology and let each mother do the ob for Cor herself herselt Then get et a teacher with the right amount of o caring to start with and It would wouldn't t take any longer or cost co t any more to give ever mother the training sire she needs for this tbs work than to take charge ot or the child during these thue tender years ears The mothers mother are going to think thinka a long lone time Urn before they tend send their year three ye olds r-olds old to school chool schooL But many of o those very mothers mother who are loath to do so 10 do not dream of the tb possibilities for right or wrong character building In those early years Jears American mothers want the ben ben- benefit benefit of all that the educators know about making the best possible people out of their children But Dut why 1 Mr lr Educator cant can't you OU t till the mothers and and let them tell the babies Perhaps an enlightened teacher Is 15 better than an Ignorant mother But nothing can beat an n enlightened mother |