Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-09-12
o N r RING
CHILDREN from
CRIB TO COLLEGE
CompIled b Tie Editors o.

In making thinkers OF our children,
our best way will be to become think
ers ourselves. Children are so easily
nodded by those who care for them
that they will be helped simply by
being in the company of growing
minds. It matters little whether we
have received college degrees, but it
does matter that we be interested in
finding out new things, trying new
methods, hearing people who make US
think, reading things that we can null
over at leisure, even IL we do not
agree with them. The very atmos-
phere of a home where thinking is
going on is helpful.
For the wo-to-fOur-year-od, shoe
boxes pushed or pulled along suffice
for transportation vehicles. And they
like to put things into boxes and take
them QUITO fit mothers nest of
aluminium pans together and take
them apart. The pre-kindergarten
child is buslly engaged, too, in using
and developing his new-found muscles.
He adores just walking-pulling his
box behind him on string. He finds
infinite fun in learning to travel the
length of low walking beam, which
can be raised little as he grows
proficient in control Of himself. He
loves to climb steps-a novelty to
apartment born children. Trapezes.
ladders. see-saws, slides, swinging
ropes, parallel bars, tricycles and BIZ
cycles come later and are an aid to
the growing childs proper develop
ment.
1t is not news to parents that chill
dren above three sleep less than those
below that age, but what some
mothers may not know is that there Is
a tendency for the afternoon nap to
continue on the all-or-none principle;
that is, when a four-year-old sleeps
at all, he will remain asleep for the
entire hour and half OF his old-time
nap. Otherwise he doesn't sleep at
all. The rather sharp decline in the
amount of sleep taken by children be-
tween three and five is accounted for
by the discontinuance of the nap
rather than by diminishing of the
night rest.
For those who prefer a slightly
more formal type of room than the
early American room is, and who are
partial to American styles and to
maple. there is now a formalized YER
sion of maple, in a darker, richer
coloring 1t is used for the less crude
types of early American pieces and
for provincial furniture of Queen
Anne inspiration.
Many boys of twelve to fifteen are
voracious readers. They are not
quite as addicted to the confession
type of magazine as the girls but they
dote upon detective stories and read
tons of Wild West novels. Much of
this perfectly legitimate interest in
plot could he fostered by giving them
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by great authors.
Whole milk of fine quality is a
mainstay in the child's summer diet.
He needs from three-fourths to one
quart of it daily along with either one
egg or meat or fish. Both cooked and
prepared packaged cereals are to be
included in his meals. They are
wholesome and they aid in getting the
required amount of milk into the
menu.
If you want picture in which the
subject Will he looking at you, in the
print, have the subject look at the
lens or an object that is about the
same level as the lens. 1t is not al
ways necessary or desirable, however,
to have your subject look directly at
the camera, especially if you are max
ing a storytelling picture.