Enthusiastic Parents

Te Ao Hou, December 1962, Page 53

Enthusiastic Parents Play Centre has only one magical quality about it—the enthusiasm of parents for the welfare of their children. All the rest is sound common sense. Parents of pre-school aged children find a suitable local hall, meeting-house or house. The mothers and fathers make most of the equipment they need, from working drawings supplied by the Play Centre Association. They raise the money, from as little as £15 to as much as they can acquire. They discuss the basic Play Centre information contained in four booklets, or on long-playing gramophone or tape recordings. They bring forward three, four, five or six parents to qualify as Helpers; either one, two or three of these Helpers go on to qualify and become the holders of an Assistant's Certificate, and one or two to continue to qualify and become the holders of a full Supervisor's Certificate. An affiliated Play Centre runs for 20 children, two or three half days a week, under a parent who is fully trained and certificated for this age-group of children.