European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse " a n Ourse to children. They a gone of Good schools w 61 those people and Bankers she said. We track in is not simply a desire thalis driving the rents it is also a deeply of parenting. Thai is extended Lamitie. Grandparent Riet door lice you dumped a a bluer s head when you Ait until he s 10 to give 9salzmbnhad Lead then magma Lions to play while a j them explaining Inq y. No worries about Are concerned Wilh d s behaviour than be Selling children who and 2-Yeaf Olds Don t shara.0no Lawhor slightly embarrassed Hal his daughter has snatched a Puzzle from the hand of another child gets reassurance. Dori i worry about it said Rand Jarrell the course s instructor and a doctoral candidate in the education of the gifted children his age tend to think everything within three feet of their play area belongs to them. The ability to share is a Hie too advanced for kids this unlike courses designed Licach s specific skill or academic subject this Ono is geared to having the children spend most of the time simply playing Pardon is can join in the Block building Don the other fireman s Hal or simply observe. The meal demanding moment of this loosely structured course seems to come during a Brief Circle Lime when children and parents sing a rousing Lound of tie wheels on the bus or hear an animated Reading of where Iho wild things Are participation in group activity is especially difficult if it a demanded at a Lime when a child s play had him ready to slay Iho dragon he d been stalking for the last 10 minutes being a Par i of a Gioupis something child in this age Are not quite ready la do. Salzman says the 10 work course has Given him depth m trying to understand what is Best Lor his daughter. Ii has teen very helpful a kind of measuring Rod Salzman said. It has been a validation thai Many of our instincts much of whal we were doing is tight. We re All Guilly of being sheep it s easy when you re a Parent to us assume that if everyone is doing something in must be Righi the course has also Given Salzman who is involved in film production the Chance to share ten daughter s school and Artonce something that 13 usually the province of mothers or baby Sillers Shell learn to read when it s Lime when she is Salzman said right now 1 want her to be Happy and have fun and enjoy being a child " combating shyness in a child by Marianne and Stephen Garber and Robyn Freedman Spizman Cox news service Reader s letter. I am a 31-year-old Mother of a Evi year old daughter Sho is a Beautiful Happy healthy and very smart child Belt she is extremely afraid of other children. She s always been at Homo since i am a she s never really been around other children. 1 know need to get her around other. Children but when i Lake her to the Park she clings and go a this scared look on her lace. You would think something happened 1o make her feel afraid bul she has always been with my husband or me and nothing major or oven minor or that matter has Ever happened. She s always seemed to be this Way. I d like to put her in a Molher s morning out program but she trusts to not to put her in a situation that would fright on her and the Houghl of her being afraid up sols me help. Anxious mom dear anxious mom some babies Welcome every lacs they see others Are wary of strangers and some arc frightened of new people. Many children pass through the stages of behaviour you described. Children who arc exposed 1o outsiders your Igor of Ore naturally hesitant in a. New situation. Since meetings arc infrequent your child has less Opportunity to become accustomed to being around others. Thoro is increasing evidence thai arty Ness May be hereditary a project done at the University of Colorado studied 152 children adopted before they a were 3 months old one sifting discovery was mothers and their children were in degree of shyness even after two years of separation. Or Jerome Kagan of Harvard univ Cisily believes that shyness is a biologically based temperament but he also says it should t to used As an excuse to allow a child to remain timid. About one third of Iho shy children or. Kagan and his Asso halos followed eventually became More extroverted the environment and How parents respond to a child s inhibition and ear influence the degree of shyness. Your concern Tor your child is Clear by How would you Rale your level of Shyi wis. Ii n s High you will have oven harder not to rain Loco her tendency. Consider those suggestions As you plan a birr approach 10 help you child tin comfortable with others your child 01 of shyness it can become i. Sell Lul Lilling prophecy. A is to say ii Lille to new people invite one child Over to play rather than beginning at the Park where there am new surroundings noise and Many . Introduce her to on fiend in h
