We usually speak of "feeling our age" when we are at our worst, meaning that we feel older than we ought, A child's thoughts also turn in the direction he fears, which in his case is towards his extreme youth, when he is below par This, at any rate, was how I felt inclined to describe the change my youngest child, who at normal times is particularly independent. when she was recently more affected by @ malady than she has ever been before, even by more serious liines For a day or two she sobbed quietly, making no fuss, whenever was out of her room. She wanted me to sit or lie fon her bed, and though she kad fed herself for nearly three years she begged "You give it to me" Whenever her tray was brought. And-she invited instead of refusing help with the process of her toilet.
Story Telling the time I began to tell he: about. "Red Riding Hood," and realised that the story was completely new to her. Nor had she heard of "Jack and the Beanstalk," though she knew of "Cinderella" from seeing a pantomime. When I was easing my conscience by telling these stories for about the tenth time to the invalid jmy middle child came into the room ind corrected me. "You've forgotten to say she met the wolf in the forest," she told me, "and it sent her the longest wa I had also, found. omitted other features of the tales. mentioned that five-year-old infant had not known anything of them, and ed how this could be
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