Show EARLY FOR CHILDREN CHILDRE Declaring that children a as early earlys as 55 s five fin years of age are have formed many habits and mental r r ten ten- tendencies in a measure acquired Professor Arnold Gesell Gesel of ot Yale Tale says BaYs We believe that children are to sonic some extent plastiC We feel that it Is largely a matter Tutler of prop prop- proper er en regulation and habit formation in the school pre period The rhe way ay In which we are going about this problem of mental hygiene In the child Is 11 by getting at the source of the trouble We find by bythe tue time some children get to high school and college cOllego they are ell set Bet In some habits of study either for better or for tor worse and It is the purpose e of the present movement to relieve relie the tho high and colleges of this thia handi handi- handicap handicap handicap cap by In preparing advance a good minded healthy-minded army of children for tor them to educate The five years of o childs child's child a life Ut go lio further toward determining the mental condition ot of the adult than any equal length of time between the ages afes of f S and 24 For instance note the reaction of ofa ofa oa a child to a red block At the ageo ge of I 1 month he doe does I not heed it If At 3 months he gives gins slight attention to It II At 6 fi month months I he hold of o It it At 12 months with two blocks in hit bIs hI bands hands he takes a third In Iii his teeth At 18 months be Is If erecting a cot uma col omit of everal blocks blok one on top of o another At 2 years he takes three blocks and makes makos a ab abridge abridge b bridge At 3 4 or 5 Ii years he Is doing tasks that require skill and concentration with the blocks Man Many psychologists are Insist Insist- Insisting Insisting ing that to fo properly train a child the training must roust commerce be before fore the child Is 11 file e and should start as s soon as I the baby begins to take tahe on lasting Impre impressions |