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It is during this period that fears and likes and dislikes are acquired. Often the child reflects the emotional attitudes of those around him. Perhaps a thunderstorm is raging, and a mother and her son are alone in the storm. With terror in her face the mother holds her child close to her as she trembles and shakes. It is probable that try as he may in later years, that child will never quite
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overcome his fear of storms. It would have been well worth the effort if that mother had suppressed her fear and, taking her child to the window, had pointed to the flashes of lightning and said, "Pretty, baby, pretty!" The child's first impression of a thunderstorm, and the one which he would likely have retained through life, would have been quite different. Many people have strange, unreasonable fears which, if they could be traced back, no doubt originated during these impressionable years. A happy home life is the most necessary factor in the child's development at this time. If he is to become affectionate, he must
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