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With home-made stencils to guide them, children fancy up the windows for Christmas with home-made Decorations That Disappear Quicker Than They Are Made There's no need to discourage children from fancying up the windows for Christmas because of haunting visions of the tradi- tional struggle to remove the push-button snow, soap or decals at the end of the holidays. There's no sweat to erasing the decor if youngsters use a home-made conocoction consist-! ing of 4-tablespoons of baking) soda to a half cup of water.) Fill a flit-gun, atomizer or) other squirt-type contraption with this solution and let chil-| dren spray the "snow-da", After) a couple of applications it pro-| duces the same effect as the} push-button variety only it just brushes off with a damp ~ terry - cloth towel when dis- mantling time comes due. And it takes soil with it and leaves panes sparkling. There are other advantages to the "'snow-da". It costs consid- erably less than the commercial products. Baking soda, being a food, it's perfectly safe for the youngsters to work with. . .'with 10 thumbs. Freq Serre : | Schoolchild s Progress By GARRY C. MYERS, PhD ; wholeheartedly as he talks andjc An enormous number of fam-|help him feel he is a worthy, jh ilies move from one section of the nation, from one province,| h ily. jh from one local school district to| During hours other than © another. Some move several|homework time, welcome his times during a school year. pals to your home, when you a In some classrooms, nearly|¢an study him in relation to'e half the children there in June , were not there in September.|be a good playmate. Consider what this means to the' Read a great deal to your son © children and their teachers. Among the children moving most often are those of tech- : , nicians and members of the|hé is taught at school. I like t armed forces. His playmates in| think of dad and what he migh the immediate neighborhood are do for this boy, ) different and they differ in with him, sometimes taking number and ages. few of his new fr' All his classmates may be/2%¢ having fun with him. strangers to him and the school) READING IMPORTANT iar with the methods by which! tls f $ Se SEE | BE PATIENT ito want you to check on it be-| |fore he takes. it to school. | important member of ihe fam-|ing a tutor to work with him|months before asking for a | them and find ways to help him} sources than his school books. | Try to help him find books and and read with him his school|to him and easy enough for him assignments. Try to grow famil-|o read with satisfaction. Oly going places from it will always go with him. a iends along; |ANSWERING QUESTIONS TQ. rebuke or punish my child, five, | h inothine or do. nothing the next! 2-rill_do-so ae three times he torments this| puppy j | A. He would suppose you are is written work, winning him|9° Very Gepensavie SOHCHUT RED MONS EARNED HER MONEY Unless you parents can be) Acting with James Cagney on aim, serene and patient while her first movie contract, Joan elping him, consider employ-|Blondell made 39 films in 29 alf an hour or more a day, It}rest. ould be a valuable. investment. |< Whether he reads well or not, im to get him to read some very day from other good SALES & SERVICE VOLKSWAGEN WERNER'S SERVICE CENTRE MANCHESTER and Highway Ne, 12 985-7162 hildren's magazines appealing | No matter how many times ou have to move with him, his) kill at reading and enjoyment What would happen if 1} or tormenting a puppy, but say |: wel to make her happy and you proud... see GIFTS 2 ee COE SRS EES Se Ore eS books, school ways, standards) | have a notion you parents and methods in each subject) could do most for him by finding | may: be different. The work for ways to help him became a good the grade he enters in the new reader, At his age the methods school may be harder for him. | of jearning to read may not be The method of grading and pro-| qifferent from school to school. |motion may be different. He may not get regular read- SON DISTURBED ing instruction at school. | The mother of 10,| However, nearly all his school | writes: work includes reading. The bet- | "Our moves seem to disturb ter he can read, the more easily our son. His unsureness shows | /® pat - able to adapt to a upon his entering a new school "© Sno. and unfamiliar situations When he has homework, " ; : hope you parents encourage an We have had three schools e. . 3 in five vears--three different help him at it. Unless he reads math svstems, three different! V°TY well from his assignments, progression and grading sys-/"e@d them with him. Help him tems. I can well understand and '° read for meaning. be sympathetic with his prob-- Have your son _ practise lems, but it isn't the answer for saying or writing In a making a good student." words of his own what My reply in part ae ae te aati any word I share your concern about)y. asks you'to spell, looking up your son who has had to change) ome of them with him in the schools so often and to try to)" get used to new ways of learn-| | ing from books, I'm sure you try hard to help him feel secure and happy at home. At home, encourage 'tsnow-da"' which wipes off at the end of the holidays with a quick swipe of a dry terrycloth towel a boy, no need to worry if it travels from hands to mouth. Also, there's no need to worry if the aim is wild and the "snow-da" lands on rug or furniture. The solution dries to a fine white powder which can be brushed off or whisked up with the vacuum cleaner. To provide the design for the windows you can make your own stencils. 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