Our Children By Mrs- w- B- Davis
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Training To Think
The child of three who dis
covers that another child has her
doll and who in order to regain |
its possesion, finds and holds out
a pretty book to distract atten
tion then deftly snatches her doll
exhibits the quality that made
Newton famous. She thinks. It
is a mistake to believe that chil
dren do not think. For a long
time it was thought that reason
ing was absent or inconsiderable
among the young, but now we
know better. To think is to
solve problems; and the child j
has an array of problems, and he
attacks them in the ways em
ployed by his elders, among
which ways he is thinking. As
thinking is a consummation de
voutly to be wished, the fact that
children tend to reason—do rea
son, and reason increasingly and
well if suitably directed—is
gratifying.
Error in children’s efforts to
solve problems, to explain things
they are baffled by, to get what
they desire by processes of re
flection, is so frequent that their
reputation for thinking is dimmed.
Beginnings Of Reasoning
But it is not by successful ef
fort but by effort itself that the
presence of the reflective activity
in the child should be declared.
The child’s recognition of a diffi
culty and his attempt to get a
round it by adaptation of means,
show the reason in reaction,
BIRTH
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Simms
have announced the birth of a
son on March 17, 1947, He has
been named Norman Jr.
while impotent anger, or mere
imitation, implies a lower plane
of consciousness. Any promin
ence in children of the tendency
to exhibit merely anger or dis
couragement in the fact of diffi
culties is evidence of the unde
veloped condition of their reason
ing. Many of the difficulties of
dealing happily with children
arise when they are too little
given to reasoning. The relief to
all when they reason freely is
like that associated with dealing
with reasoning adults. The ad
vantage of being able to appeal
to the child’s reason is outstand
ing, while for the child’s future
welfare rational tendency has a
high value. The early develop
ment of children to be reasonable
creatures — reflective, problem
solving, and circumspect—is de
sirable from every point of view.
The training of children in
thinking is hindered by their
emotional character, by adverse
instinctive tendencies, and by in
secure power of attention and
erroneous concepts; their state is
also influenced deeply by the
observed behavior of adults with
reference to method. To native
handicaps of rationality must be
sometimes added examples of
petulance, lopsidted argumenta
tion^ unfairness and prejudices
among their elders. Children
brought up in an atmosphere of
trial and truthfulness show traits
to correspond.
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