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Show Your Child The room was a shambles of odd gloves, baseball bats, catchers' catch-ers' mitts, visored caps, textbooks, text-books, pencils, candy bars, old sweaters, rocks, and treasures of the "creature world," including includ-ing ants and toads. "This is Jimmy's room," his mother said apologetically. "It's nearly always that way." She looked at me and sighed. Almost every mother has the same complaint. Many children of school age forget to wash, to clean their finger nails, to comb their hair. And they never seem to hear reminders about keeping keep-ing their rooms in order. The Childcraft Advisory service ser-vice points out that "it may help parents to accept some untidiness un-tidiness if they understand that it usually isn't in the make-up of children between six and twelve to be very neat. "That is because they are absorbed ab-sorbed in too many other things that are more important to them. "If a child in this age group is very much concerned about orderliness, it may even indicate indi-cate that he or she is missing some of the satisfying, carefree, rough - and - tumble experience that should be part of a school boy or girl's life," |