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Walk And Speak Softly: Noise on a Boat seems to be amplified, so walk and speak softly and your shipmates will be glad you're aboard.
Smoking should stop, of course, when gasoline is to be taken aboard, but care is the order of the day even when smoking is permissible. A carelessly flicked cigarette ash or butt has started many a fire in a chair, awning, or compartment. Cigars leave a particu-
larly unpleasant after-odor on boats and should be enjoyed only in the open air.
Again the best policy is that of "adult guidance in line with the child's own pattern of growth." Adults provide conditions favorable to the child's learning to walk, but they let him take his own time in beginning to sit, stand, and walk. Thus they aoid the danger of strain from premature, forced attempts to sit up and to walk.All babies tumble while learning muscular control, but mothers soon leam that babies are not breakable.
The child has a strong urge to walk. Even in countries where the baby's movements are hampered by swaddling children make progress as soon as they arc free to use their bodies. This means that in learning to walk maturation plays an important role.
Environmental factors also enter in. For example, one twelve-month-old baby was making steady progress in learning to walk without help. One day he slipped on a small rug and fell on the slipper}' hardwood floor, hitting his head.
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