CHILD GUIDANCE Does Premature Birth Retard Development? By GARY C. MYERS, PhD [none too Hag - 7" a = Pro-|derful teacher, a en wor ds g4 ee ee ost is not done at school it's done mer teacher of mine, say, in|@t home. referring to a daughter of his)pycELs IN READING born prematurely, that on the! «1» excels in reading, is poor average for each month prema-\in arithmetic and average in ture, the child's development is| selling, He'd rather read and --_ ' a let all else Po e 8 ; 'He's a champion dawdler io we oa Fg ed and has to ~ Ccagrer Ft catch Ul atlas and over to ge y and leave different from the typically re-|things alone. Anything handy tarded child. beonmes a toy." My reply in part: RE SON : rye Colorado, a mother| No doubt your boy will catch writes of her son, ten, who|¥P by and by. Do all you can was born prematurely (at|' Pgh was Prag gs mage mae 6% months), weighing three| With children ¢ ge.' Never nds: refer to his size. When others Ye ii @ hear condition. A do in your presence, divert their A attention to other matters. deformed rib structure, suffered) | hope you (fy to quiet him from low resistance srespiratory| down and provide a serene, infection, etc., till 4% years old.|cheerful family for him, Most These were brought under con- 4 of all, try to speak in soft, quiet trol but brain damage resulted. tones and try to be relaxed "He's a bundle of nerves, "ge js S»| yourselves, you and Dad. can't sit still for very long, is apt to chew the daylights out) KEEP HIM CALM of a pencil, shirt cuff or paper} Don't let him roughhouse in- handkerchief. He's about the doors. When he gets too noisy size of a six-year-old and he/and excited, require him to sit resents this. unamused, doing nothing, for "His grades at school are/half an hour. 8 ---------------=| Keep the radio and TV silent Kaur, former Indian health min-| Most of the time. Don't let him ister. |view TV much, and never vio- | Nina Popova, president of the|!ence on TV . Soviet Women's Committee, is| 1 hope Dad spends a lot of arranging for a Soviet delega-|time with this boy and that tion. jyou both help him to spend Purpose of the conference is|some time at fun with other) to study ways of implementing| Children of his age. | International Co-operation Year| pRAISE HIM | . effort to provide an at-|Should the UN General Assem- , VOW Arranging Rosphere for tree and frank|Dly adopt the idea this fall, |, l's boa vaguely te discussion of problems and ex-| Prime Minister Nehru of In-|'0 reading. wy Ereat emnusl: . aCUssION 'Or BP ' ldia suggested an ICY in an ad-|45™ over his successes and find Meeting Of Women change of ideas. eseclntgg- oe ce {more books he will enjoy read- | An open meeting will follow dress to the assembly last No-|: Read ss th i f F 05 Cc * sejin Montreal Sept. 14-15. Dr.| vember when he said: 'Co-|!98. Head also to him from rom ountriesiii,:paret Mead, the American|operate or perish; peaceful co- harder materials. : iat: wi i lexistence or no existence at When you help him at his By PATRICIA RUSAK comaigee oe iam deliver the}ot : |lessons, strive to be calm and Fifty . I "k j ® .| patient. es elets from nk Aad Others. who have indicated Poo ogi a rage sic é « 25 countries will gather in a|they will attend are Dr. Post-\-oched by the Voice of PARENTS' QUESTIONS Laurentian hideout Sept 9-13 to| humus van der Goot of Amster-/voi.en and has agreed to sup- concentrate their creative|dam, author of Women and/.o1t the proposal for ICY. brainpower on one question --| Peace, Mrs. J. B. Priestley and)" iw, hope the adoption of this world peace. Diana Collins, leaders of the| -esoiution could prove as signi- °Cc@sionally? ; . |women's peace movement in),. as tem"! A. Good books from which Chairman of the Conference of}, _.._: cai at ficant for the humanities 'as : Britain, and Sarajini Aiyar of| ' ye jthey like to be read to, es- Women for International Co "| the Indian Cooderative Union International Geophysical Year|'? ; , operation Year will be Mrs.| P "was for the sciences," she said.|Pecially if these grandparents W. D. Tucker of Toronto, pres-/RUSSIAN DELEGATION The general topic of discus-|do, some sary tie the grand- ident of the Voice of Women, a) Eleanor Roosevelt may be onjsion at the two - day meeting|CMildren during the visits. two - year - old organization de-| hand. Mrs. Tucker has also had|at the University of Montreal) voted to promoting world peace. correspondence with Mme. 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The ceremony will take place in King Street United Church at 2:00 p.m. and the couple will make their home at Dryden, Ontario, where the bridegroom will be a member of the Public School teaching staff. Ireland Studio Former Figure-Skating Champ Now Practising Veterinarian "You are denied the friendship 1 of other children and your school work must be crammed in between practising and per- forming." -- : |WON BRONZE MEDAL PETERBOROUGH, Ont. (CP) Dr. Suzanne Morrow Francis, three times Canadian ladies' figure-skating champion, says skating was a pleasant interlude in her life but dogs have always been her first love. Nine years after her retire- ment from competition, she has plenty of opportunity to indulge that first love. She raises dogs and is a veterinarian in the ogg Toronto suburb of Thorn- She hasn't severed all connec- tion with skating, however. Interviewed during a visit here, she said she has qualified as an international judge and hopes 'eventually to be invited to judge Olympic competitions. with the Peterborough Figure Skating Club and will be judg-| ing members periodically. dian women's singles champion in 1949-50-51 and also combined with Wally Diestelmeyer of Kitchener, North American pairs in 1947. They took a bronze medal in the 1952 Olympics. retirement in 1953 she had been among skaters in the world. and travelling abroad, however, Hes she was usually accompanied In addition she plans to work/hy a dog. Her favorite in the dog world is the German shep- jherd and second is the dober- |man pinscher. She has praduced: seed) on the rump once and Until Dr. Francis went to the several champions in both) Suzanne, now 30, was Cana- Ont., to win the In the five years up to her the top six women set salad in the for an hour or two to blend the flavors. Serve on lettuce or other greens with radishes and green onions, Try This Summer Luncheon Salad 1 cup mushrooms (cooked or canned) 7%4-ounce can flaked tuna tablespoons finely chopped celery : cup cooked rice : ¥% teaspoon curry powder Salt and pepper to taste Broiled dressing to moisten Mix ingredients together = r Or use cooked macaroni or finely diced cooked potato, | Serves four. Even when she was skating call, such as the recent one from a farmer with a purebred bull desperately in need of a shot of antibiotic. The petite blonde tapped the then with a second tap rammed Ontario Veterinary College at|breeds at her Kurtz-Hauss' ken-| the needle home and all but ran Guelph, the longest period she/nels. had spent at public school was two months. | Because of the;women veterinarians, Although there aren't many) | from the stall, After it was over she was told it hap-|the government vet had been demands of figure-skating she| pens that Dr. Francis shares a kieked clear over to the other had to depend on tutoring for|clinic with another, Dr. Edith) wall by the bull the day before. much of her schooling. | Williams. "Believe me, if I had known "The world of champions and| She specializes in small ani-|that I would never have stars is a very especially for a child," she said. lonely one,| mals but if a large one is ill/ventured into the stall," she she won't hestiate to answer a| laughed. 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