A woman psychologist recently faced fathers' and mothers' questions about their children's behavior: when does a child walk? When does he talk?.. and become able to enjoy life outside the home?.. Her answers were simple and frank; we give some of them here... She said:

When you watch your child laughing and playing, or struggling to walk, dragging pieces of wood toward him or clutching at a chair, and lingering over his first words... you ask yourself: Is my son behind in all this?..

And suppose he is... how do you compare him with ordinary children?..

Take little Sami, twelve months old, who has begun his first steps: he babbles without stopping, and sometimes utters unintelligible words — while the neighbors' daughter Salwa, who is his age, has not

yet tried to stand or to speak... All she can utter is: Mama... Papa... “bis”... So which of the two is the cleverer and brighter?..

The fact is that there is a great difference between children's capacity for a task and their manner of performing it... These differences appear from the very beginning of life... It is not easy to judge of a child of six weeks or a month that he is intelligent or lacking in intelligence... Individual differences are inseparable from personality; even the children of one family differ in their capacities — a thing many parents may not know... Close resemblance exists only between twins...

During recent years a number of tests have been carried out

on students, to ascertain the degree of their intelligence... And it is a very interesting thing for