and this thing is close and is toroids and one very speedy is using things that belong to a school don't you think is fun making things like this and he does this ballard is pleased but now it's time for the children to return to their death they're going to practice writing and a like that he'd like to write he'll hurry back to his desk but and he forgot th it's bad teacher disappointed in you when you don't seem to us after school and he doesn't feel like playing with his friends but he wants to do something now what does he see this is have an older boy defriended nobody can call him baby any more so he asked fred to come and see us tadpoles he has to live on fred might like to see the tadpoles some time then remembers he hasn't thought to see them for many days and that was one of his responsibility but he can still show fred a special presents that's what brad came to see if and they can only find this his very best thing of all he just has to find it because fred might not believe him and fred says he should have known better than to come home with a little ki now and he's really alone it seems dandy just can't get along with anybody today anybody but mother maybe mother knows where and the special present is no she doesn't but she does know that something is troubling indeed what is so and he tells her about what mother knows this and andy knows and we know that those things happened because and they hasn't learned to take care of things it's now june is having trouble with her things gretchen head is coming off and john wants mother to fix it suddenly and he says let me fix it right now he's going to start showing that he can take care of things don't you suppose andy is glad to do something to make up for being so mean to june besides it's fun fixing things when you're through it's more fun to know you've done a good job and it's fun to see how much people appreciated now and he knows he has friends he thinks he can fix said jet airplane to flood some things can be fixed and no fixing well fine things you've lost such as andy's favorite right no and he will have to take care of his things all the time he'll begin right now by putting his jacket in cap away where they belong then you'll know just where to find them tomorrow morning that's another one of his responsibilities but all there's a button missing well mother will be glad to sew on a new but especially now that andy is helping her by looking after his clothes and he's going to look after the other things too he's going to have a certain place for each thing and keep each thing in its place and he knows one way to show fred and the kids at school that he's no little kid and he's really quite grown up ever since then and he's been thinking about how grown up it is to take care of things when he cleans up his wake and he thinks about how often a days a fireman working over their fire engines and equipment to make sure everything is always ready to use and he has a new face in place of his tadpoles when he feeds them he thinks of cars and land to help his father take care of the cows and his dairy where andy likes to visit when and he picks up things that might cause someone to fall and hurt himself and he thinks of his friend the policeman who helps the children go to and from school safely and the you learn too that some things break very easily so he must be especially careful of them and use him just as they're supposed to be used that's being grown up too many men work with things made of glass and with other things that have to be handled very carefully some things that are funded do are all still messy but andy has learned to clean up the messes soon as he's through after all doesn't mother spend a great deal of time washing dishes and cleaning up after the family has eaten and when father does his jobs about the house doesn't he clean up and put away the tools yeah cleaning up after yourself is a grownup way to behave and what's more you'll know you've done something that's a real help to your family taking care of things is a real help at school too you just know miss ballard appreciates dandy tales and nobody thinks of n d as a baby anymore everybody likes  today andy and joan are having fun helping father take care of the yard but what if andy so we decided to give up do you know what he'd found his special present what do you suppose it is it's a camera it's andy's own camera that he got on his birthday of course it's a little dirty and he should never have left it outdoors can they fix it father thinks they can fix it this very afternoon in a little while the camera is fixed what's more now that andy is shown that he can be responsible for taking care of things and using them properly father things he's a big enough to use a camera and take real pictures and he wants to take a picture of fred the boy who came to see the camera the day and he couldn't find it remember now fred is glad to play with and he knows it and he is not too little to be a friend if you want people to know that you're growing up learn how to take care of things you'll have more fun too