Maintenance of Mental Health.

Everyone agrees that going to school is an important occasion in a child's intellectual life, but not everyone yet realizes that it is an equally important emotional occasion?that, mdeed, it may be considered a final stage in the process of weaning about which Miss Hay-Shaw wrote in the August issue of Mental Health. The young child has to learn that he may not depend upon his mother for all his Physical sustenance and gradually to learn that she will not always be there to gratify immediately all his psychological needs. With growing independence he looks to others?his father, his brothers and sisters?for love and interest, and so his little world changes. But during the first five years his world is a home world?