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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

the same age frequently wipes dishes for his mother. What most people would call work he thinks play. Since play is the natural way in which children learn, it is quite possible to use this method in the more formal teaching which is given in the class-room. When school days come they shorten the time for free play. But the desire to play still remains. School work is made more interesting and helpful if use is made of this desire. Pupils enter joyously and spontaneously into any project which is-really their own. The kinds of play in which children indulge vary with the different periods of child development. Two sisters, of three and eight years respectively, had great difficulty in playing together. Their play hour usually resulted in a quarrel or heartbreak of some EARLY CHILDHOOD 35 kind. Their mother attributed the trouble to bad temper. The older one complained that the younger one would not "play sensibly." When they played with their dolls, the older one was really playing house. The dolls were a part of the game. They were

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