The Child Intuitively Comprehends That

From A Child's Play, We Can Gain Understanding Of How He Sees And Construes The World--what He Would Like It To Be, What His Concerns Are, What Problems Are Besetting Him.

What Children Learn From Punishment Is That Might Makes Right. When They Are Old And Strong Enough, They Will Try To Get Their Ownback; Thus Many Children Punish Their Parents By Acting In Ways Distressing To Them.

The Good Enough Mother, Owing To Her Deep Empathy With Her Infant, Reflects In Her Face His Feelings; This Is Why He Sees Himselfin Her Face As If In A Mirror And Finds Himself As He Sees Himself In Her. The Not Good Enough Mother Fails To Reflect The Infant's Feelings In Her Face Because She Is Too Preoccupied With Her Own Concerns, Such As Her Worries Over Whether She Is Doing Right By Her Child, Her Anxiety That She Might Fail Him.

The Only Effective Way To Help Well-intentioned, Intelligent Persons To Do The Best They Can In Raising Children Is To Encourage And Guide Them Always To Do Their Own Thinking In Their Attempts At Understanding And Dealing With Child-rearing Situations And Problems, And Not To Rely Blindly On The Opinions Of Others.

As The Creative Adult Needs To Toy With Ideas, The Child, To Form His Ideas, Needs Toys--and Plenty Of Leisure And Scope To Play With Them As He Likes, And Not Just The Way Adults Think Proper. This Is Why He Must Be Given This Freedom For His Play To Be Successful And Truly Serve Him Well.