Perhaps the role of motherhood is the game every little girl best loves to play!

What can the kindergarten offer the child? Will it help 'Susu' overcome her shyness, or calm Jamil's incessant fidgeting? Shall I send my child to the nursery so that I can go out to work?...

There are no easy answers to such questions unless you consider the school's setting and how it fits the

child's nature. Here is Jamil, always in motion, full of fancies — filling a barrel with bubbles, or painting a wall, and performing strange imaginary feats which he can express more clearly at school. Suad, on the other hand, is quiet and takes no interest in the company of other children; yet at her age — three and a half — a

child begins to give and take with his playmates. Samir and Nabil need no companions, for they are twins and delight in each other's company. Children of four, or of three and a half, are happy at school if the eye of a capable teacher watches over them; but children in the second year of life

need the company of their mothers, and with it they are content, for companion-ship matters little to them; yet it should be given them in light doses at first —

What a wave of happiness and contentment floods these little ones at their play, cooperating yet independent!