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Restless Minds
i Mr« two tom, four and ttro-andahalf, *1*0 « three-month-old daughter. The boys pi*y together very well but ore to rattleei. They go from one thing to another with only twenty or thirty minute* at one thing. First, it’* storybook*, then block*, then blackboard*, core, color*, then leiteor*. I try to help them build or draw, but my houtework i* about all I can manage with a period of play with one when he get* up, and the other at bedtime. I do ineiet that they put one thing away before getting another.
I read where one mother put certain toy* in a Monday box, other* in m Tuesday box, etc., thu* rotating them and keeping each fairly n««r. Other* •ay they should be allowed their choice about ihingt in order to develop thinking power. / don’t want to do their thinking for them, yet I don’t want them to be flighty and resiles*, never sticking to any one thing as they grow older. Can you help met
You need not worry about yonr children's apparent r*sl?eaattca«. ' The span of attention of children of Ibis ace is very short ov.-i it i« to be exported that they will shift from one activity to another at frequent intervals. Keep on band creative plsy materials, which you evidently are doing, and you will find as they get older they will stick to certain activities longer than they do now. . Borne guidance from yon in their play periods ia dcsiraldc, although auefa guidance should not keep them from having a choice in deciding what to do.
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