Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

jews Siavs, Negroes, Greeks, ana Russians.
LIE hit upon the plan of inviting himself
regularly to lunch with three Of them at
q time. 1t worked. While they remained more
or less quiet and consumed rattons to carry
them through q busy afternoon, he was able
to steer the conversation and bring out each
child's personality. ,l:.-
IT try to disappear and just be part of the
group" he explained. at FIRST they ask why
I am writing down shorthand. I say, oh,
I. just forgot something Next day, one child
asks again. OH says the other, hes always
forgetting something So am accepted on
that basis" s.
Out of these little luncheon paries of four
supplemented by the histories Of the children
DR.. Jaederholm has gained a new conception
Of how human beings grow up in their be-
havior-and how they sometimes fail to grow.
He has found that there are four general
levels or ages Of development. You climbed up
through these levels Of behavior in childhood
Your behavior today lay still be assigned to
one Of these four lagos of man."
The first age typical of the earliest years Of
existence, is the age of impulsiveness
II take the 3-year-old up to q picture Of O
Dutch boy and ask if there is a cat in the pic
ture," said the psychologist explaining how the
baby mind works. THE 3-year-old thinks I
want him to say yes so he says it.. There is
no end to this"
or the adult who has temporarily slid back
ward into mpulSiveneSS-cannot look ahead.
Only the immediate present seems important.
Il tell the youngsters to come to me tomor-
row and will give them something NICE" he
continued. They poster me all day, so that
can do nothing. But next morning nobody
comes. Being at the age of 8. they have for
gotten all about it." go
So long as the little human being lives con-
tinually in this careless unthinking state, he Is
not ready to take on school work or RESPONSE
bilities. In the daily routine of the nursery
school DIR. JaedeFholm found some children who
would get everything mixed up They could
not brush their teeth. They never played group
games sensibly with other children. These, he
concluded, are the children who linger in the
impulsive age They have not come up to
the next level which is the age of common
sense or, as the Swedish psychologist generally
labels it, the deliberative age
Roys and girls become sensible about the
fourth year of their existence, he observed,
but the shift depends good deal on how much
their parents and other older people talk to
them and treat them like sensible beings.
At this second age Of his development, the
child doesn't use any old silly idea or impulse.
He, takes, stock of situation before jumping
into 1t. II he decides to raid the pantry and
gobble mp his share of pie before dinner, he
does 50 with an idea Of what Is likely to hap
pen when some NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. member
Of the family starts counting pieces The little
girl who has reached the ,common-sen age can
be expected to GO to the corner store and bring
back the loaf of bread, as directed. At least,
the law Of probability makes Its reasonably safe.
TO try the experiment.
The amount of thinking that you do as you
20 about your business depends somewhat On