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Doesn't think that's all smooth skin
a certain wrongness not quite fixed.
Later the lines of experience cut in deep and the features set hard in the mold.
But now when the skin is smooth and the features are soft the patterns of face
and the spirit are not quite definite
or prominent This is the face of you
and the troubles of youth are often not so serious as they seem because they can be
handled with warmth
and understanding before they have been woven into the permanent pattern
that's one of the most important features of a public health nurses work she sees
so many babies and young children.
She looks so long and steadily at the face of youth or understanding
and sensitivity can help so much can help ensure
that the pattern as it does evolve will provide and its design
or happiness confidence and maturity.
Her
or are
or are.
The public health nurses the uninvited
but welcome guests her services are freely offered to those who need them
and deserve them.
A diaper rash. That's fairly common not too serious.
It might be the type of soap used method of laundering.
Whatever it is it's comforting to have the calm reassurance of someone who speaks
from considerable experience and training
and who is president many other mothers
and babies.
For a nurse. It's not only what you come to see that you take note of.
Sometimes there are other things
that make you wonder just a little bit.
Like why mother should be so upset by a plain everyday squabble between two
daughters.
It's the sort of thing you notice quietly and decide perhaps to.
Find out just a little more about.
Thank you thank
you.
All right.
Thank you.
Roy.
A nurse
and a teacher have a great deal in common they both work with children they
may work in slightly different ways
but they have the same aim to help children grow up easily
and happily This is a subtle task
that requires a gentle hand and a sharp eye and eye
that can see how a child feels the way he acts the way he plays
or the way he draws a picture.
Bobby WALLACE For example how he.
Wishes he could have a bicycle.
But Bobby had rheumatic fever last year
and isn't supposed to be as active as the other boys.
And this one. This was drawn by wrestling board Rove.
Run business happy a child as he should be not that he isn't a good boy. Oh no.
As a matter of fact you almost get the feeling sometimes
that Ralph is too good.
I was unable to fight back.
Can't let himself get angry at anybody just can't seem to let himself go.
Then there are the spelled out kids seem to love
spellbound.
That is most kids but not Ralph.
Somehow it seems as though every time there's a spilled on Ralph gets a stomach
ache and he's really an excellent speller.
And it's not just
when he's with Alex No ROSS troubles are his own no matter who meets with.
But how about Alex what kind of a boy is he.
Alex.
That's Alex.
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Thank you. The old thank you.
Thank you.
Who you.
Thank you.
Thank you Alex
doesn't mean. Any harm
but it's as though his energy spilled over from time to time.
He doesn't particularly like to be scolded but he's rather pleased
that the other kids notice him
and say smart Alecs.
Oh yes Alex has a headache
but not only in school because a person is himself where every
is at home at school at work or play.
That's why Ms Anderson felt she should visit Alex's home.
Maybe Alex needs more attention
when you have meals to get ready clothes to wash other kids to care for sometimes
there just isn't any time left.
Ms Anderson can understand
that she can also understand
what Mrs Lundborg feel.
Ralph is a fine boy a decent well behaved boy
but that something is not quite right with him and that for a mother loves him.
That is disturbing.
A community has a natural interest in its children not only to protect them from
physical danger.
But also to protect them from my own happiness an adult life
that could have been prevented.
And you one of the first things planned for Alex was
that he'd be a member of the patrol squad.
A good chance to use some of his surplus energy.
And be important
but in a cooperative way which didn't get him into trouble with the people around
him.
Sometimes you can even be destructive in a cooperative way.
Alex's father found he could spend more time with his son.
And enjoyed it a few little things of that sort ease life a good deal for Alex.
At home. And at school.
And I made Alex a happier boy because no boy wants to be bad.
Not that they can get just as much attention when he's good.
With Ralph run Fortunately it was a bit more complicated.
Or not that there weren't things to be tried.
Mrs Runnels decided when the next spelled on was held
but Ralph would be the one who asked the words.
This way he could participate but not be upset by the pressure of competition.
It worked fairly well the first time would probably be all right.
Once or twice more. But sooner or later the other children would one. Why.
Ralph was all that the one for Ralph himself.
It was an escape from the problem rather than a solution.
At best it was a stopgap arrangement
and could hardly be continued.
Mrs Lomborg wanted to help but it was hard for her being alone so much.
While her husband was away on business.
I had particularly because she didn't really know what was wrong
and nothing she tried seemed to help.
That's why she decided defter talking to my standards
and again to go to the Child Guidance Center.
It's not me a card. I understand.
But rather that he's heard this is a place for Crazy kids.
And what did you think Mrs on board what I didn't know exactly what I thought I was
Lundborg came to realize it was a trial guide
and center is not a place for Crazy kids. I did not at all.
It's a place where normal parents
and children who have problems which they are not quite able to work out a place
where people are helped to help themselves.
This is one boy came here on the recommendation of one of the city nurses.
My first in a Child Guidance Center social worker psychologist
and psychiatrist work as a team that the staff meeting it was decided that the so.
To work it would seem us is one Borg and it's like I addressed with zero.
For nine o'clock.
Please thank you.
Mrs Carroll Mrs Lundborg is here.
Women. Hello Mrs One board.
Hello real. Well.
What would you like to do today.
Look around this hour belongs to you you may do what ever you would like.
My mom. But for good will it do for them just to play in there. How can that help.
How do you think it might help to play together. Well.
I suppose you can tell quite a bit about kids by the way they play.
You know. It's often difficult for children to say in words just how they feel.
But they show their feelings by the way they are.
During his weekly visits to the Child Guidance Center.
Did show his feelings.
Oh yeah I thank God I hope.
I'm up. You want everybody to think you know that.
Why don't you rap. Sort of feel that you have to do everything just right.
Yes anxious to please.
So anxious for everyone to think he was a good boy
when his eye was over he was quite careful to pick up the toys he played with pack
them properly into their box and return the box to its place on the shelf
and he said good bye to Dr again and just like a little man.
But gradually Ralph began to be less of a little man and more of a boy.
This is my.
Was I live in your house. Me or anyone else.
I have very much
and I'm not a baby.
Sensing the doctor again I think cept him not because he was good. But just.
Because he was himself Routh began to be freer about expressing his feelings.
I've got yes.
That makes you angry. Doesn't it. Yes. You're right.
Really because it kept you waiting. Yeah.
Ralph had become so free in fact
that his mother was rather troubled at finding her good boy growing difficult
unmanageable.
She talked about this with Mrs Carroll the social worker trying to understand what
it might mean in terms of Ralph's development
and her relationship with him she too had become freer less knowledgeable to talk
to Mrs Carroll about many of her feelings.
As for rounds he did become difficult even wild.
But he always understood that he was at the Center for a purpose and
that there were definite limits to his behavior even there.
Once round had grown accustomed to expressing his feelings to being a little wild
when he felt like it.
His energies began to flow into constructive efforts which could be made in
cooperation with other people rather than at the expense of other people
having become a boy again Rob was not able to grow up as a boy should.
And so the time came
when Ralph was able to face a little difficulty without any longer being afraid of
it on feelings. Just face it calmly for what it was.
Not as Mrs Reynolds said that she wanted Ralph to become a prize fighter.
But she was pleased even delighted to see him able to hold his own
and that after all is our hope and intent
and whatever community we live.
That those of us who work with children nurses teachers doctors social workers
and those of us who live with children. Parents. That we all work together.
By love
and knowledge for the show by the gentle hand we help children to the happiness
which is held. That we help them.
Not while they're young. While there is time.