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Show Experts say young children need play time for good adjustment the first 20 years of life "because people keep their childhood problems that long." The local Professional Family Child Care Association found this to be an interesting concept, lending credence to the importance of attaining at-taining social skills, i.e., interacting with others, sharing and perhaps not placing quite so much emphasis on educationalacademic instruction, in-struction, i.e. reading, at an early age. There are many qualified, licensed, in-home child care providers in the area that provide this fully-developed play period for children, as well as other pre-school type curriculums. For further information, contact Pam Mcintosh, 785-1287, Utah County coordinator, Professional Family Child Care Association of ; Utah, a non-profit volunteer organization and the Utah Chapter of the National Child Care Association. Pushing the pre-school child into school situations and depriving him of a fully developed play period can cause education and personality adjustment problems later in life, according to a University of Wisconsin psychiatrist. Dr. Jack C. Westman of the UW Medical School discussed the long-range long-range implication of nursery school behavior with U of U medical students during a recent visit to the campus. The seminar was the first of four scheduled through January by the Department of Psychiatry. "The right to play is the child's estate," said Dr. Westman. He discussed a 17-year follow-up study of 130 middle-class children which showed that "a fully-developed play period for children is a positive factor to successful learning later in life, whereas an early, imposed introduction to school subjects like ; reading has a negative effect in later learning, partly because of the child's resentment," he said. "Today parents bring three-year-old children to nursery schools and expect them to be educationally programmed for some achievement which will come 15 years later in life - such as being accepted by a prominent university," said Dr. Westman. He added that this parental anxiety used to start when the child was in junior high. "The ability to play precedes the ability to work," the doctor reminded his audience. "Good relations with peers in a play situation are highly correlated to good relations with authority figures and adults in later life." Dr. Westman said pre-school experiences are so important in determining later personality development that teachers should be given guidelines for spotting disturbed or unhealthy mental or social adjustment. This would include in-clude observing the child's peer relationships, nervous habits, family structure and relationships, academic achievement and behavioral eccentricity such as lying, moodiness or silliness. Dr. Westman said major shifts in personality do not occur until after |