The Small Systems Helpline exists primarily to assist operators and managers of water systems serving less than 10,000 people. We also receive numerous calls from water system customers requesting information. This month's question comes from a customer of a small rural utility.
Beginning from the standpoint that the ability to differentiate emotions verbally is an important element in the child's emotional development, the authors describe their own investigation into how this ability is influenced by factors of age, sex and social class. On the basis of a study of over 200 children, aged from eight to fifteen years, they conclude that this ability, besides becoming more discriminative with age, tends to be more highly developed in girls than in boys, and in middle class than working class children.
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