later the lines of experience cut in deep and the features set hard in the mold but no one the skin is moved and the features are soft the patterns of face and the spirit are not quite definite or prominent this is the face of you and the troubles of youth are often not so serious as they seem because they can be handled with warmth and understanding before they have been woven into the permanent patter that's one of the most important features of a public health nurses work she sees so many babies and young children she looks so long and steadily at the face of youth or understanding and sensitivity can help so much can help ensure that the pattern as it does evolve will provide and its design or happiness confidence and maturity offered to those who need them and des diaper rash that's fairly common not too serious but might be the type of soap used a method of laundering whatever it is it's comforting to have the calm reassurance of someone who speaks from considerable experience and training and who is president many other mothers and babies sometimes there are other things that make you wonder just like why mother should be so upset by a plain everyday squabble between two it's the sort of thing you notice quietly decide perhaps to find out just a little more about minors and a teacher have a great deal in common they both work with children they may work in slightly different ways but they have the same aim to help children grow up easily and happily this is a subtle task that requires a gentle hand and a sharp eye and eye that can see how a child feels the way he acts the way he plays or the way he draws a picture wallace for example how he wishes he could have a bicycle but bobby had rheumatic fever last year and isn't supposed to be as active as the other boys and this one that's was drawn by ralph longboard road runner business happy a child as he should be not that he isn't a good boy oh no as a matter of fact you almost get the always on able to fight back can't let himself get angry at anybody just can't seem to let himself  that is most kids but not r somehow it seems as though every time there's a spell done ralph gets a stomach ache and he's really an excellent speller he doesn't particularly like to be scolded but he's rather pleased that the other kids notice him and say smart ale oh yes alex has a headache but not only in school because a person is himself wherever he is at home at school at work or play that's why ms anderson felt she should visit alex's home maybe alex needs more attention when you have meals to get ready clothes to wash other kids to care for sometimes there just isn't any time left ms anderson can understand that she can also understand what mrs lundborg feels like ralph is a fine boy a decent well behaved boy but that something is not quite right with him and that for a mother loves him that is disturbing a community has a natural interest in its children not only to protect them from physical danger but also to protect them from on happiness an adult life that could have been prevented and you one of the first things planned for alex was that he'd be a member of the patrol squad a good chance to use some of his surplus energy and be important but in a cooperative way which didn't get him into trouble with the people a sometimes you can even be destructive in a cooperative alex's father found he could spend more time with his son and enjoyed it a few little things of that sort he's life a good deal for alex at home and it's cool and i made alex a happier boy because no boy wants to be bad not that they can get just as much attention when he's good with ralph run fortunately it was a bit more complicated we're not that there weren't things to be tried mrs runnels decided when the next spelled on was held but ralph would be the one who asked the words this way he could participate but not be upset by the pressure of competition it worked fairly well the first time would probably be all right once or twice more but sooner or later the other children would wonder why ralph was always the one for ralph himself it was an escape from the robin rather than a solution it was a stopgap arrangement and could hardly be continued this is longboard wanted to help but it was hard for her being alone so much while our husband was away on business i did particularly because she didn't really know what was wrong and nothing she tried seemed to help and center is not a place for crazy kids i did not at all it's a place for normal parents and children who have problems which they are not quite able to work out a place where people are helped to help this is one boy came here on the recommendation of one of the city nurses my first in a child guidance center social worker psychologist and psychiatrist work as a team that the staff well what would you like to do today kids by the way they play know it's often difficult for children to say in words just how they feel but they show their feelings by the way they  dollar was over he was quite careful to pick up the toys he played with pack them properly into their box and return the box to its place on the shelf and he said goodbye to dr again and just like a little man but gradually aroused began to be less of a little man than more of a boy sensing the doctor again i think september not because he was good but just because he was himself began to be freer about expressing his feelings that makes you angry doesn't it route you're angry because it kept you waiting yeah about many of her feelings as for rounds he did become difficult even wild but he always understood that he was at the center for a purpose and that there were definite limits to his behavior even there once around the grown accustomed to expressing his feelings to being a little wild when he felt like it is energies began to flow into constructive efforts which could be made in cooperation with other people rather than at the expense of other people having become a boy again round was not able to grow up as a boy should so the time came when ralph was able to face a little difficulty without any longer being afraid of it on feelings just face it calmly for what it was not as mrs reynolds said that she wanted ralph to become a prize fighter but she was pleased even delighted to see him able to hold his own and that after all is our hope and intent and whatever community we live those of us who work with children nurses teachers doctors social workers and those of us who live with children parents that we all work together by love and knowledge a show by the gentle hand we help children to the happiness which is hel