■Child Development Center drippin’ with amendments Brittle girls, little girls Everywhere I turn I can see them. ' Little girls, little girls Night and day I eat sleep and breathe them. jSome women are drippin’ with diamonds. |Some women are drippin’ with pearls. Lucky me, lucky me, look at what I’m drippin’ with, little girls. ■How I hate little shoes, hittie socks, and each little bloomer H I’d have cracked years ago H|f it weren’t.for my sense of humor. 1 Some day I’ll step on their freckles J Some night I’ll straighten their curls | Send the flood, send the flu Anything that you can do, Ito little girls.” ■ -Martin Charnin- By Thomas A. Rhodes Of The Print You probably wouldn’t hear Myra Lunn, the 39-year old supervisor of. the Child < Development Center, singing w i > Mrs. Hannigan’s lament from X I *1 the Broadway show, “Annie.” ' But, Mrs. Hannigan may have a- point. Upon walking into the Child Development Center, one immediately catches hold of the fact that everything is, in deed, little. Little chairs, little tables, little toothbrushes, it ■ l goes on. Staff photo by Ramona Isackson But the fact that everything in the center is little hasn’t fool OFF THE WALL- A “little pard”-stares in awe (or just ed anyone into thinking that stares) while enjoying a typical day at the Child Develop the changes made in the center ment Center. are little, as well. Starting in will make it easier for the development. Currently, children are re-' spring term, changes will be go- , parents, the progenies and the ing into effect at the center that sitters to experience child quired to be at the center every day for at least half the day. .. .......... .......- -u......................... —J The drop-in center right next door allows the parents to drop their kids off for only a few hours. The center was geared to the full-time students. “Most full-time students don’t have children,” Lunn said. “So, star- " ting in spring, we will have a two-to-five day option for the part-time students.” The two- to-five day option allows part- or full-time students to drop their seedlings off according to their own schedule, rather than the center’s. ■■JI i 1 X-v ' Now that there is a full-time director in the department (this is Lunn’s first year at the Col lege), the center can develop a variety of services and pro grams on early child services. Those services include—short term workshops and mini courses for parents, parent education programs where parents are trained to teach pre-schoolers, a .grandparent child program, and a Saturday College fdr kids. “I’m really ex cited about the potential of these programs. This' com munity’ needs these programs,” Lunn said. LILY TOMLIN _• OW^ dibu : SHRINKIN Written byJANEWAGNER • Music by Executive Producer JANE WAGNER 0'^^ * Read the JOVE Book ■ Cop/^ht © 1’80 by Umveral Qty Production r HANK MOONJEAM A UNIVERSAL PICTURE MOW Pl AYING AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU Mednesday, February 4, 1981 iMO What does the ChHd Development Center 'teach these children (all 3 to 5 years old)-?\.The;moming. program is designed ’ to meet ; sppipL physical, and menthl needs of growing children. The little ones are taught school subjects which include working with numbers, letters and sounds. Music, movement, and motor activities are included. The kids are taught how to make choices, cooperate and work with big groups. The center has taken the children on many trips during the \ear. Trips to OMSI and through Oregon City (See . humor column on page 2) are an example. In December, the center was visited by the Pacific Indian pre-school. The Child Development Center is open from 7:45 a.m. until 5 p .m. The hardest part of working in the center is that the kids need attention'all of the time. “The hardest part is \ always being there for them,” \ Lunn said. Page 5