Show BABY Let T Teacher Do Childs Child's I Instructing ng By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED I shall be happy to send you my free leaflet What to Teach the School Pre-School Child for a self- self addressed and cent 3 stamped en en- Send your request to Mrs Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department in care of The Salt Lake Telegram It is so perfectly natural for a parent to want her child to seem to be smarter and to know more than the average that her concern concern concern con con- cern a bout ways of teaching such a child is an understandable one But the naturally smart child suffers often from the parents parent's parents parent's parents parent's par par- ent's unwise efforts to stuff him with information He has a hard enough time rema remaining ning on the same level as the average child and we only increase this difficulty difficulty difficulty culty by forced education before school days have arrived Mrs M. M K says that she and her husband would like to know a little more about teaching her 21 months old son He has a first primer and is learning to pick out various words He is conscious of colors and can recognize recognize recognize rec rec- them fairly well He counts to ten and understands the amounts of anything up to tw two or three He seems to want to learn and we really would like to know methods of getting things across to him I have plenty of time to spend with him Because the boy is obviously gifted and precocious you could spend your time with surprisingly surprising surprising- ly 11 good results And what would you accomplish for the childs child's benefit if you did Your boy might be able to read and count when he got he-got got to school and then would sit in the classroom bored and idle while the duller pupils who were just learning to read and count would fumble their way through the subjects he had mastered |