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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

at this age the child often desires to be like a particular person whom he admires. Have you ever known a child who wanted to be "like daddy," or "a big soldier," or a "policeman"? These are his ideals, and he frequently attempts to be like them. It is John's bedtime. Mother sees that John 36 LIFE IN THE MAKING is not in a very good humor for going to bed and that an effort to make him go will result in a struggle. So she says cheerfully, "Come, now, Policeman John, it's time to go off duty and have a sleep." John pauses a moment. He knows that he does not want to go to bed. Still he does so much want to be a policeman; so off he goes. It will not do, however, to try to impose an ideal which the child does not admire. If John did not care about being a policeman, the game would not have worked. Kenneth was only four when he spent a summer with his grandfather on the farm. His grandfather soon became his hero. One day his father noticed that Kenneth did not carry his shoulders very well. "You will have to hold your shoulders up if you

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