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earned at home.
One day a child's world is made up of
friendly faces, familiar surroundings, time
honored routines, and a comfortable sense of
being wanted.
The next morning, he is in a foreign en
vironment, surrounded by strangers, doing
something he's never done before, far from
all he's learned to rely on.
Nightmare? Horror movie? Neither just
the first day of school for a new pupil. Of
course, not all young students stumble in
terror at the first steps of school life, and the
reason for their better adjustment may pro
vide a lesson for parents of preschool tots.
Take one teacher's "pets" in the first grade
of a large community school. They are "pets"
only in that they are ready for the experi
ences and responsibilities of going to school,
and their success actually reflects the success
of their parents.
"For one thing," the teacher explains,
"these parents took the trouble to attend a
'get-acquainted' meeting our school held
Family Weekly, September 1, 1957