Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Claude Monet The Rouen Cathedral at Twilight painting

Claude Monet The Rouen Cathedral at Twilight paintingClaude Monet The Road Bridge at Argenteuil paintingClaude Monet The Riverside Path at Argenteuil painting
As the children get older and more skillful they build larger constructions, though still no more than knee high, with passages, courtyards, and sometimes towers. Many children spend all their free time gathering rocks or making mud bricks and building "houses." They do not populate their buildings with toy people or animals or tell stories about them. They just build them, with evident pleasure and satisfaction. By the age of six or seven some children begin to leave off building, but others go on working together with other children, often under the guidance of interested adults, to make "houses" of considerable complexity, though still not large enough for anyone to live in. The children do not play in them.
When the village picks up and moves to a new gathering ground or canebrake, these children leave their constructions behind without any sign of distress. As

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