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+ Does everyone have a breaking point?
Yes, but some persona operate ef
ficiently for years under pressures
that would cause others to collapse.
The difference seems to lie in the
methods they use to cope with
everyday tensions. When a break
down follows a tragedy it is usu
' ally culmination of strain aroused
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by the individual’s inability to han
dle lesser emergencies and pres
sures.
The techniques habitually used
by a person in dealing with minor
problems depend largely on reac
tion patterns established in child
hood. The earliest method of reliev
ing stress is running to mother for
comfort. In time, "mother" is re
placed by other figures—friends,
spouse, home, car or money. The
most stable of individuals are those
who recognize the mutual dependen
cy of human beings, and develop
attitudes that strengthen their in
terpersonal relationships.
Xt follows that there must be
jome degree of self-sufficiency in
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finding ways to discharge tension.
The most effective ways combine
self-understanding and discipline.
Some people relieve tension by cry
ing, swearing, or laughing it off.
These devices never settle problems,
but if not overused they can re
store equilibrium and enable the in
dividual to act in an intelligent and
effective way.
"Talking it out” is a healthy ten
sion-reducing device. It implies con
tact with another human being and,
in addition, may produce new ideas
for solving the conflict. Thinking it
through (a device many people be
lieve they use oftener than they do)
also may bring a new viewpoint by
"listening” to your own statements
on the problem.
Working off excess aggressiveness
Is another effective way to relieve
tension, if the action is directed to
ward changing the situation. Even
pointless activity is helpful if it is
pleasant, interesting, or leads to
some minor goal.
♦ Ant nursery schools helpful to children?
Not for all children! Many educators
are convinced that nursery schools
help only a few youngsters, and are
harmful to many. Surveys have
found that there is no significant
differences in the I.Qs., abilities or
achievements of elementary school
children who attended nursery
schools and those who did not. How
ever, nursery school pupils usually
had more personal problems.
Nursery schools answer a specific
need for some children, but many
parents, who should keep their child
at home, yield to the social sanc
tion of nursery school as "the right
start.” A mother may feel that her
three-year-old pupil is learning to
get along with people, when actu
ally he is only learning to be like
all the others. Estelle Gilson wrote
in Saturday Review that a child
cannot be expected to resist the
groups and gangs that will lure him
at age 13, if at age three he learns
to submit.
Nursery schools foster unrealistic
(6 1967, King Futures Syndicate, Inc.)
Sat. and Sira* Jan. Zl-Tt, 1967
• Not at the top academic and scientific levels, ac
cording to Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of th<
U.S. financed investigation of Unidentified Flying
Objects. Dr. Condon’s staff at the University oi
Colorado will include leaders from both physical
and psychological sciences. The psychologists will
attempt to analyze the emotional aberrations (il
any) involved in reporting sightings.
Recently there has been a sharp upsurge of in
terest in U.F.Os. over the United States, due to the
rise in reported sightings, wrote Peter Bart in the
New York Times. Membership in the National In
vestigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (a
conservative private organization) doubled to over
11,000 in the past year. This group takes no posi
tion on the nature of “saucers,” but feels that there
have been enough well-documented sightings to jus
tify intensive scientific scrutiny.
In contrast many rapidly growing organizations
of "saucer zealots" have occult, psychic or religious
explanations for the U.F.O. phenomenon. Some are
convinced that air-borne saucers are proof of God’s
concern for this planet, that the saucer adherents
are helping God keep an eye on Man to prevent his
destruction of the universe. Hence “they’re watch
ing us more closely now.”
Major Hector Quintanella, who keeps track of
U.F.Os. for the U.S. Air Force, has a different idea.
He believes that the great increase of sightings in
1966 stemmed from the upsurge in publicity ac
corded such reports.
Getting back to Dr. Condon, whose specialty is
atomic physics, he has no preconceived attitudes
related to U.F.Os. He acknowledges that he does
not expect to find visitors from outer space; but he
is not against it. “After all,” he said, “it would be
the discovery of the century—of the millenia.” When
asked if he hoped to see a flying saucer, he replied,
“I certainly don’t want to see one if it’s not there.”
ideas about future living, Miss Gil
son said. Many nursery pupils enter
elementary school expecting to And
the same kind of personal interest,
sympathy and encouragement they
have been used to. Instead, the road
leads toward apprehension, fear,
boredom and behavior problems. One
18-year study of two groups of
children found the nursery young
sters to be poorly adjusted at every
stage of school life.
According to Miss Gilson, a three
year-old belongs at home, assimilat
ing a sense of values from his fam
ily, developing a conscience, and
learning to think for himself. Leav
ing home each day may be felt as
maternal rejection, especially if the.
child begins to depend on playmates,
toys and a relaxed atmosphere at
school. Furthermore, a child who
has experienced his happiest, mess!-,'
est, most boisterous fun away from
his family may always believe that
the best fun is to be had away from
home.