Our Children By Mrs. W. B. Davis
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A lot of what some call naugh
tiness is just natural activety
with no place to go. An intelle
gent child needs challenging
things to do at school and at home.
Parents are often patient with
preschool children. They realize
that our commonplace every day
world is to him full of wonderful
intriguing objects and splendid
adventure. When three year old
baby paints the floor with shoe
whitening, mother explains that
Daddy was using shellac on the
floor, that whitening is for white
shoes and that floor painting is a
grownups job. Give him his
brush and water and start him on
his own job of painting, while
cleaning up the mess, she thinks
he was smart to ^imitate Daddy
and she is right. Bobby, we’ll call
him was transfering into action
knowledge gained by observation
unhappily when Bobby reaches
school age, his mischievousness
probably will not meet with the
same tolerant understanding.
More will be expected of him and
mother will often complain “But
he knows better.’’
At the very time when growing
bodies demand action movement
and action, children enter school.
They have been accustomed to
physical freedom. They want to
run, to jump, to shout. They need
such activity. The joys of associa
ting with other children is a new
discovery to them. They are soci
able; they want to talk, to work
with other children. Play gives
children the same feelings of joy
and achievment that work, re
creation art and exploration give
adults. Childhood should be joy
ous. Happiness is an indication of
whole some growth and sound
parents and child relationships.
The joyous self-directed activity
of the little child is his best pos
sible education. He needs an in
vironment that is rich and free,
secure and safe, but full of op
portunities for adventurous ex
ploration. Happiness is a sign of
good personal growth, just as ra
diant health is a sign of good
physical growth. No one, either
child or adult can be really hap
py unless he has the full use of
his own powers. Parents should
watch for signs of readiness, pro
vide the kinds of materials or op
portunities for which the child
seems ready and wait to see what
the child can do. And if it turns
out the child is not ready, there
should be no urging. Just wait.
Dr. W. A. Hunton, educational
director of the Council on African
Affairs, has recently published a
booklet titled “Stop South Ameri
ca's Crimes.” Both Dr. Hunton
and Dr. Yergan have been follow
ing closely the proposed annexa
tion of South Africa led by Pre
mier Jan Smuts (the move has
been pigeonholed by UN for a
year) and have disseminated a
deal of intelligent information on
Africa through to the schools and
other interested organizations.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Jackson,
nee Charlotte Williams, announce
the birth of a baby girl, Patricia
Anetta, born Tuesday, December
10.
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Campus News
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| by Jeanne
Malone
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Here’s good news for university
students and the citizens of Lin
coln. Lincoln’s Social Action
Council has voted to accept the
university student committee on
racial affairs into its member
ship.
The SAC, composed of a group
of Lincoln citizen^, was formed
during the past summer to pro
mote economic and social equal
ity for all races and nationalities.
By merging with the SAC, the
student group hopes to profit
from the experiences of the local
council and to co-ordinate their
activities in the hopes of obtain
ing greater results.
The student group will, how
ever maintain its individual
identity and will continue to do
work on its own.
The Ivy Leaf club, the interest
group of the Alpha Kappa soror
ity met and elected officers and
outlined a few of its future activi
ties which you will probably hear
more about later. Those elected
to office were: Jeanne Malone,
president, Juanita Hanger, vice
president, Melsena Goolsby, secre
tary-treasurer.
Mrs. Ruth Thomas and Mrs.
Betty Pittman both of Omaha
and both alumni of the Univer
sity of Nebraska paid a surprise
visit to the campus Wednesday,
December 11. They were accom
paning Mrs. Pittman’s husband
who was attending a meeting of
the State Veternarians Associa
tion. Another recent visitor to
the University campus was Miss
Jacquilan Johnson, a former stu
dent of the Nebraska University
also of Omaha who was visiting
Miss Charlotte Preston, Sunday,
December 8. Mrs. Virginia Rose
was another visitor from Omaha
who visited Miss Ruth Norman.
Mrs. Rose accompanied her hus
band who came to the Veteran
Hospital for a tonsilectomy.
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