Mrs. LETTICE RAMSEY 'Real Life and Make-belief '
EVERY child loves 'pretending' : and this, like all its activities, is useful to its development. Make-belief gives the child an outlet for its feelings which it might not have in real life, and thus makes its adjustment to real life easier. Also it can exercise its ingenuity and imagination in this pretence world.
A normal child does not mix up the real world with the pretence world, if care is taken ; he must not be led to think that fairy stories are real. Mrs.
Ramsey will explain all this, with examples, and give suggestions on how to foster the pretending ' instinct in children in the best way.