ManYana Ltd, Achieving Tomorrow, Today. Education, training and consultancy. Tuesday, 29 March 2016. When you set an activity, or tell a story, or show a video to help a child learn one of the inevitable consequences is that they will devote some of their thinking to extraneous matters. Some of these are difficult to avoid. The argument you had with your mate. The fact that the room is too cold or too hot. For the above poster .

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