The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-20

quick, some SLOW with lNtlI SCuoOA
work, some are silent, some loqua-
cious and yet all these varieties
are quite normal.
Happy are children if parents
during these years see their char
acteristics and within reasonable
limits allow them TO follow their
respective bents. Sex has not yet
entered into the picture TO any ex-
tent and they can be guided with
out consideration Of the storms
that part of life imposes.
Physically, a child from four to
seven should grow about two or
three inches a year, and gain from
three to six pounds a year. This
is a terrific change in rate from
what has been happening up to
that time. 1t means that clothes
are likely to wear out before they
have been outgrown, for one
thing.
Capacity for Food
The capacity of children of four
20 ten for slowing away food is
the despair of aging gourmets
who have to stop almost before
they have begun to eat. A child
psychologist, with the mathemati-
cal righteousness that charac-
terizes that species, records that
at a birthday party of ten chill
dren, five and six years old, four
and half dozen sandwiches
Cham, egg, cheese and jelly), two
and a half glasses Of milk apiece,
a large piece Of birthday cake
apiece, a plate Of ice cream each
and so much candy it couldn't be
counted was consumed. And this
was just a little extra light snack.
They all went home and probably
tore into quite a stable supper.
| make no comments on the
ethics, or at least the good taste,
of a child psychologist shopping
on a quiet CD gathering of this
kind, but it certainly shows that
children of this age can handle
Rdult-sized portions Of food.
Variety Important
l think it is very important at
this age to teach a child to eat a
great variety of foods, especially
vegetables. Also to guard against
forming preiudices against foods.
can recommend this with some
fervor because my own childhood
was not so wisely guided in this
respect, and | have found only in
adult life what pleasures | missed
by being perfectly positive did
not like certain articles of food.
was thirty-five years old before
l began to like caulifower. (And,
of the record, snails and cells are
now my secret passion.)
| am firmly convinced that
careful annual physical examina-
ton by a doctor, preferably the
family doctor, should be made on
children from the age Of four to
ten. Of course, they should be ex-
arnined before that too, but up to
the age Of four they will probably
be frequently sick and the doctor
will see them fairly regularly any,
how.
From four TO seven there are
not likely to be any definite signs
that take the child to the doctor,
hence the examination is likely
to be neglected. But these are the
years when certain tendencies be-
gin that develop into serious ham
dicaps in adult life, and this is the
time to check them.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A Mis- there any reason for
cruising easily? The least little
pump makes a large bruise. A
week ago took a light massage
and as a result have black marks
all over my body.
Answer: 1t certainly calls for a
blood examination to test clothing
time and bleeding time.
R. G. Sis there anything you
AN Dc for lack Of pigment on the
face? Anything you can put on
70 conceal the spots?
Answer: Vitiligo, or lack Of pig