HABITS OF CONCENTRATION

Shannon News, 21 June 1927, Page 1

HABITS OF CONCENTRATION

Many parents aeem to ©xpect v th&t school should automatically produce a habit of concentration, forgetting that it is a habit acquired only by long practice and with great difficulty. Concentration should begin In the nurseiy. The baby who constantly, cries for something different—and gets it—will become at school the child "who cannot concentrate." A child cannot learn too young to.I give his whole attention to any matte? J in hand. "The silly thing won't g« < right," he cries, and turns to something else, when a little help and :j praise might enoowsage him to perse-f vere. Even nursery play affords am*,"'. plo opportunity foi teaching hlm-'to : ; do carefully and completely he begins, though it be. only a castle of blocks or colouring a picture. .., "To begin" must be inseparable' in his mind from "to finish'."* j Then,when the time comes to 1 leave the tmnieij he will embark upon the great adventure of school—his real entry:into life-equipped»with the invalwiblo . habit *df MdoinftWaob©»t." ,i n g,, il * ttlie ' i»M»Be *Wiuie of failure to concentrate.