Show l' l Laughing at Children hildren j DO O YOU laugh at your child when he I makes ludicrous mistakes in speech speed or 01 wh when w n ii he asks apparently foolish questions Do D you lOIl call him in iii when adult guests arrive ai nut anil li ve him hini go through through his his little stock of tricks fricks for them i 1 If you do you are arc doing dong your thud child a gr great at wrong and the time will come when he lick will wile suffer for it even if you dont This is on th the word of Dr Garry Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- lal land d. d Myers head of the division of parental cd education of df Western Reserve university who has has- fn ade made an extended study of child ps cholo La Laughing at a child Dr Myers explains destroys ys it its personality A child asks ques questions Hons in order to add to its very limited stock of knowledge when laughed at or ridiculed ridiculed ridiculed ridi ridi- he le is hurt and decides to stop asking qu questions ill iii in other oilier words to censor his re remarks remarks remarks re- re marks to repress his natural development to stunt his mental growth I Inducing a child chilli to p perform for company company com corn pany is just as bad The child is made the center of attention and comes to expect it always But as it grows older this trait kes it it a nuisance The child finds thata that a attention tf n is suddenly shifted away from it though it behaves just as it always did Who c can measure can ri measure measure the s suffering that a child in such a situation endures The Tle wise pare parent t a according cordin to t Dr Myers I hs at his Ills childs child's mistakes no matter matter mat mat- ter how funny tunny they arc are nor does he ever under any consid consideration raHon make the child show showoff aff off before callers |