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Scattered among four Harlem community centers are the remaining 13 Corpsmen, currently undertaking such projects as teaching preschool children and holding "vocational guidance" classes with students to explore job opportunities...
...doggedly homely prose of ordinary primers, and as a bonus they get a sound start on correct spelling. Author Wenkart has plenty of proof that parents hunger for her products. With almost no advertising, the books now sell briskly in nearly every state. They help teach literacy-hungry preschool children, but are also being used by such topflight private schools as New York City's Brearley. Sales to date: more than...
Comfort & Facts. The preschool child is too young to be comforted by reason. Just as it does no good to insist "There are no ghosts," it is not enough to say, "Don't be foolish-this is a drill, not an air raid." What seems to help most at this age, says Dr. Escalona, is a bedtime story, an extra cookie, a night light, and the knowledge that mother is not far away...
Admit & Define. Adults are far from agreed on many of the answers themselves and disagreements between parents breed doubts, fears and emotional disturbances in children of all ages. Dr. Escalona is convinced that parents should not show their disagreements in the presence of preschool children. For the next-older group, the thing to do, she says, is admit the disagreement and define it, but also to make sure the children understand that their parents are in accord about what they want...
...Children's Hospital, every preschool child is now checked for pica, and every child with pica is checked for lead poisoning. Psychiatric social workers try to cleanse the poisonous emotional atmosphere in a pica child's home; once that is done, it is relatively easy to cure the child of pica. But if the trouble persists beyond age six, the child usually develops some other form of deviant behavior. Now the Washington researchers are checking to see whether, as they suspect, a pica child becomes easy prey to other addictions later in life, such as compulsive eating, alcoholism...