Show I I I I I CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S FEARS VIOLA WOODVILLE Whenever you bear har a mother yay py ay I I nearly go 0 v wild lid when hen themes there s a II storm 1 It frightens me so 80 you may be sure her lit children are arc afraid when ben there is wind windor windor windor or excessive rainA rain rainA A it mother I know kno usually calls the children together it rains and mk a n pleasant sant occasion of the s theta bow how the thirsty earth Is drinking HP tIp the moisture and points out the reviving ve vegetation If It there Is my any green about It If thore there la is l not she ex- ex explains explains ex explains plains the phenomena of lightening and thunder and interests tho the children In inthe inthe the origin of o storms True there thero are arc people who are arc au- au su su e to atmospheric conditions I and there arc are others who have bavo been In or have hae e a had unhappy experiences experiences ces n 1 storms still nervous ous affections are arc only Increased d by giving way ay to th them m and tb they y need not be bo on to toI I children Modern psychologists tell us that there are only three or four tears feare that are Instinctive in children The rest r ire I Instilled by parent nurse or other per per- person person per person son Take the fear tear of the dark for tor In instance ini stance This feir teu does docs not appear tan un- until tanI un until til the child Is over o t two 0 ears cars old Then I gradually ho be receives cs the idea that t all I sorts of ot things lurk In darkness I Ho lie ought not to get the Idea but If he does docs he must be trained as quickly as possible to think differently The sime Imagination thit pictures the tho dark peopled with horrors borrors cm cm be tau taught ht to fel that it If 11 i a n hovering wing that prote ts the little bird child while bile he II sleeps Of if the child Is older ho could have hae n a flashlight ht by his bis bed heal to turn on when ho bo thinks harm is near Probably ho he will not use It more than thana n a few tev times but the assurance that he hehns hns it there will bring him tranquil sleep Fear of animals Is not instinctive In children It tt a mother boasts that she has a spasm when n a cat comes Into the room or that tho sight of o a dog throws her ber into hysteria her ber children are like liko- likely ly ly to Imagine themselves so affected It Is a pity to deprive children of the s pleasure and training that como come with tho care of pots Tho mother ought to find some way to overcome her phobia If she has let Jet It go so far tar and certain certain- ly certainly not pass it on to her children And then there is the v world orld of men hI tear fear that many children must live in Dread of displeasing parents ot or eachers fear tear of punishment fear tear of ol o r l to make grades or to pass c- c el cx eliminations I knew a teacher who prided herself that she never scolded or punished her ber children yet she sho did not threaten them again and again with a failure in their work I I tell you children Just as sure suro as a you arithmetic live you re me going to tall fall in tic bull i ou 11 have bave to study day and or you 11 II not pass Tommy Watkins And the tho poor little wretch did tall fall Some Somo day all schools will be conS con conducted ducted on a basis of success Instead of ol r failure will bo ho given things thing that they can do and tasks will be math made harder barder litho as their capacity grows Dut But In it a the meantime they need not be S Sed ed Into failure |