Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1950 — Page 35
SuNbAY. 2 AUG. 2, 1080" Your Child Starts to School.
By JAMES L. HYMES JR. MOST children are ready for school at three years or 3 four. Your child may be one of the rare lucky ones who has a good nursery school to go to. He may ‘be one of the 30 per cent of our S-year-olds who has a public school kindergarten ready and waiting for him. ____Or he may be like most children—he has no school to go to until he is six. But whatever this age when he begins, heave
titled. to it! Of course some people .may talk about you if you start your child in nursery school or even in kindergarten. “S8he’s just trying to dump her child . . . she wants to get rid of him . . . only looking for a parking place .. .”
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starting school. Dr. Hymes is TEE roTeNsor oT TE We ithe ne rge Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn. He is former professor of education at New Paltz Teachers College, New York, and past president of the National Association for Nursery Education. He is the author of “Enjoy - Your Child” and “How to Tell Your Child About Sex.” These articles are. selected from " “Three to Six,” just published by Public Affairs Committee.
Look them straight in the eye and smile, and don’t give them a second thought. Three-to-six is the time to turn to a group. Your child needs a room built for children. He needs the space and the chance to make noise. He needs friends to play with and ail the materials that-a good group can have. He needs the chance to branch out on his
youngsters who are ready for school everything they need, just by yourself. The parent knows when to call in the team.
A Flying Start
BE GLAD there is a good school you can turn to. But
want your child to be off to a happy start. This is his first moving-out beyond his home. Your child will be doing this all the rest of his days: Moving out to camp, to clubs, to high schools, to college, to a job, to a family of his own, to a new town or state or country. You want this first step to be a satisfying one,
built upon it. This is-his- first taste of formal learning. And ec VBR £0. 80 AL we Learning from people, from books and newspapers and
} getting ‘new - information. This should never stop, not even after the last diploma. And it i won't if this first taste is a § pleasing one, This is his first discipline : from outside the family. This : ¢ is never-ending too; from ageJur : mates, from elders, from jobs, 3 responsibilities, from customs and laws. You want your child to move into this new wider discipline easily, comfortably, agreeably. Starting school is the beginning of many big lifetime tasks. Your child can get off to a flying start. And he will, IF you boost him over some of the hurdles. IF you build your underrg standing of what A good school . z is like. IF you lend a hand to make i child’s school the best.
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Make his teacher see him that way too. The more she knows about him the more she can help him feel at home. Meet your child’s teacher be= fore the .school year starts, Call on her at school or invite her to visit you. Then give! Talk! Tell her your youngster's nickname, his enthusiams; his hobbies, his pets; his fears, and what he doesn’t like to eat; his prides and joys and special peeves. . . . Talking will make your youngster come alive to
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the person who is going to work with him. Don't feel foolish about being so forward. Teachers today are looking for openings to meet you. And the information you give makes their job easier. This is a boost for your child and also a favor to his teacher. Of course you have to plan your talk with teacher. You can't do it when the teacher is busy with a classroom of children, You can’t do it when your
is thinking of himself more and more as a big fellow now, Don't tear down all that bigness by talking in front of him. Even though you have a lot to tell, don’t feel you have to tell it all at once. Make a start. Know the teacher as a friend. It is easy to go on talking through the year with someone whom you know.
A Friend's House
A CHILD is lucky when going to school is like going to a friend's house. Children can sense when the school and the home are one—friends and coworkers—or when there is a coldness or aloofness or suspiclon or antagonism. You don't have to put it in words. Youngsters get the feeling from what -you do or don’t do.
One good thing to do is to
the teacher and make your date for your private talk. He secs his room and how to find it. He sees his teacher in her school clothes and in the school setting. These make the start of school a more familiar step. One important “don’t”: Avoid warnings like “wait until you get to school. They won't let ycu do that any more” or “If you -are not good, I'll tell your teacher and she'll make you behave.” Going to school should be like going to a friend’s hruse, not to the woodshed. Start early to see the right idea.
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