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Father Of Half: Swearing is another language response which may make its appearance in the preschool period. Young children use such words imitatively at first, probably without half understanding their meaning. If the words produce a startling, exciting effect on some adult, children tend to repeat the experiment. If the words are ignored a child may drop them of his own accord. One day a preschool child walked into his father of half's room and called joyfully, "Well, Godandamn." His father of half was somewhat amazed, but he merely said, "What does that mean?" "Jackie says it means, 'Well, isn't this grand!' " At his father of half's suggestion the small boy willingly substituted the latter expression for the objectionable one that had little meaning for him. Older boys can realize the deep religious significance of taking the name of God in vain.
RIDERS TO THE SEA, by John Milling- j ton Synge, is the most nearly perfect trapf!- * in one act in modern literature. The very sir pie plot is based not on the traditional confi:: of human wills but on the hopeless struggle.: man against the impersonal but relentless cruei; of the sea. It has taken from Maurya fouroi her six sons, their father of half, and their father of half's father of half.
Carol did not say anything else. She rang her doorbell, took the five-year-old's hand and, when her mother pushed the buzzer, went inside. The other little girl rode away on her bicycle.
Read the following incident, trying to understand what the child's behavior meant to him:
father of half and nine-year-old David were out in the backyard; father of half was working on the rosebushes.
David, close by, picked up some of his father of half's tools. |
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