Frustrating Fours and Fascinating Fives

Series: Ages and Stages Series

Duration: 22

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1952

Creator: Crawley Films

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Studies the behavior of the four- and five-year-old child at home and at nursery school. Shows how parents can help children learn to make decisions, profit from their experiences, develop a sense of humor, and appreciate the meaning of death. Portrays through Roddy the typical behaviors at these ages, showing infantile helplessness and vigorous self-assertion at four and the beginning of independence and cooperation at five., Shows how a boy's behavior at the age of four deviates from childish helplessness to vigorous self-assertion.

Complete Record: Studies the behavior of the four- and five-year-old child at home and at nursery school. Shows how parents can help children learn to make decisions, profit from their experiences, develop a sense of humor, and appreciate the meaning of death. Portrays through Roddy the typical behaviors at these ages, showing infantile helplessness and vigorous self-assertion at four and the beginning of independence and cooperation at five., Follows a small boy's cheerful, zigzag course through stages four and five, in a modern nursery school. Discusses the problems of discipline and shows what may be expected of and explained to a child of four or five. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.