Evening star., 1937-04-12
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COLLATION.
For Child
Restoring of Energy
After Hard Days
Work Necessary.
BY ANGELO PATRI,

MOST school children need an aft
/, ernoon lunch. Few people un-
derstand that school day is work.
ing day for child. He works as
hard as any laborer if he does his
regulation job. He is under a severe
strain if he really tries to accom-
pliSh what is asked of him. He has
to keep his mind centered on some one
thing for prolonged periods. He has
to listen a great deal, and he has to
apply himself to the problems set be-
fore him so that his nervous force is
about exhausted by the time he arrives
at home in the afternoon.
Establish routine for after school.
Let the child hang up his hat and
coat, put his books in the right place,
wash his face and hands and brush
his hair. BY the time he has that done
his mother can have light lunch
ready for him. Brown bread and
cream cheese with an apple is what
many boys like. Girls like cookies, and
they take kindly to dainty sandwiches,
too. The children are hungry and
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them at this time.
: This is not eating between meals.
1t Is giving the children scheduled
meal on scheduled time. 1t ought to
: be just enough to satisfy hunger, no
more, Some children will eat the
cookie jar empty if they are allowed
to do so. That is not the idea. This
is light meal intended to give the
. children enough nourishment to carry
them for the next three hours, until
they get their evening meal.
After eating and clearing up, then
washing their hands, they need time
out for themselves. They ought to
have an hour or so of liberty. This
means that they can do what they
want to do without imposition of any
sort, provided that what they want to
do is something permissible, like going
out to play with the other children,
playing with toys, tinkering jobs or
just lying on their backs on the couch
or under tree, loafng. This off-time
Is needed by school children who
have done a good days work, which
means about all of them.
School children are tired in the
afternoon. They are irritable by the
time they reach home. Wise mothers
do not talk too much to them, but,
having set the routine, proceed to
feed them and allow them to recover
some of their energy before asking
questions or giving directions. Many
warning household could know per-
feet peace If this conmon-sense pro-
cedure was followed
This means that there is always
somebody waiting at home to welcome
the home coming child. \ child will
want to go home if there Is the prom
tse Of something and somebody wait
ing to give him welcome and COM
fort. This part of the program will
go a great way toward settling the
difficulty about coming home prompt
ly after dismissal. Children go home
If there is something to go home for,
and the afternoon lunch is something
And don't save up the dishes and
the errands and the odd jobs about
the house for the home e-coming school
child. That drives children to the
play lots, the neighbors' houses and
the streets. just remember the chill
dren have not been on a vacation
They're worked hard, had a hard day
sometimes, and they need welcome
and relief and food
Mr.. Patri has prepared a leafet en-
titled, Changing Habits" in which
he tells parents how to overcome a
childs unpleasant habits. Send for it.
addressing your request to Mr.. An
gelo Patri, Child Psychology Depart
ment of this paper. Inclose self
addressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope.
(Copyright, 1879