light, and she would act on what that duty imposes upon her, giving her child the preparation needed for entering kindergarten, which in its turn undertakes to prepare him properly for entering school.

Layla stood frightened before the white sheet of paper laid on the table with a little paint in the middle of it. When the teacher reached her, she encouraged her and asked her to trace something pretty with her finger by means of the paint; and Layla wept, saying that her mother beats her if she dirties her fingers with paint.

And Samir will not play ball with the children, because his clothes get dirty and his mother then deprives him of the ten piasters he gets every day.

There are many examples like these that acquaint us with the reality of our homes and the mentality of our mothers, and confirm to us the pressing need for a sound upbringing that will take charge of our children and guide them along the straight path.

Most of our children enter school for the first time screaming and crying, and sit there without uttering a letter — and that only because they have not been accustomed to free-dom of speech and have not under-stood the meaning of their coming to school. How often I find it dif-ficult to talk with these little ones, because they are not used to anyone speaking to them in a serious, useful way; they have received no measure of respect at home, and so it is hard for them to adapt themselves easily.

Children have beautiful ideas that have their value. How happy is the child who sees one of the grown-ups of his family at home talking with him and valuing what he says! Children have natural inclinations that must be developed and sharpened, and we have only to give them room enough to appear. How happy is the child who finds within his reach colored pencils and white paper, or picture books and the like, to do with as he pleases! Children have a courage and a heroism that we must not stand in the way of. How happy is the child who finds no barrier between himself and climbing the tree or playing in the water! Children have enchanting questions, and we wrong them if we forbid them to ask many of them. How happy is the child who receives answers to his questions from his parents, and is given sufficient explanation of everything he does not know! Children have a world of their own that must be valued and respected — and in our homes we

give the child no measure of appre-ciation or respect. As I have said, he counts for nothing worth mention-ing in the home. And I am certain that the mothers who appreciate the greatness of the responsibility laid on their shoulders at this stage of their children's lives are few — indeed rare.

Would that a revolution might

take place in our homes, so that the children's own playroom would become as necessary as the dining room, and the presence of books and toys as ordinary a thing as the presence of plates and the other utensils of the table, and the child would be respected and his ideas valued as though he were a grown young man!

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