Show Your Baby and Mine I By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED ELORED Mrs Eldred will willbe willbe willbe be glad to answer all questions per per- to babies and children A r stamped and selfa self self- a addressed envelope V ope forwarded to toS to'S S 'S A The T e legram will bring a p personal per r. r ronal aI r CHILD LEARNS BY CORRECTING CORRECT CORRECT- ING lUG HIS AIS OWN MISTAKES ES Every pare parent t Is quite aware that he lie learns by his mistakes that the process of trial and error error errOL and re retrIal retrial retrial re- re trial eventually lead to success but buthe buthe buthe he has a a. particular particular aversion aversion against allowing his child chUd to lo learn methods There is a t type pe of Ot parent who simply cant can't let a child alone and must have not only his finger Inger but his whole hand In mall all the childs child's pies Bobby has a a anew new set et of blocks Bobby would just as soon build ono one on top of the other cr and then cast them down with a georgeous bang bangas as to pia play with them an any n other But not his young youn- father r Io G seats seat himself on the the floor floor lo r and antI proc pro c ds to show Bobby how hw to build a. a real areal real house one that bal balances neatly and solidly on its expert foundations Bobby Isn't ready ready for for this yet and et and when father is through ho he gives the whole thing a good push push- and laughs uproariously as ag It clatters to the floor Father is disgusted You cant can't show that kid a a. athing thing thIns he tells teUs mother Its It's a good thing Bobby can Oan take this stupendous edifice so lightly Sightly for when lie he he begins putting putting- bl blocks eks one on tl the other and they reC refuse se seto to stay as did did- did hi his fathers father's Bobby gets hugely elY discouraged 1 and this his interest in blocks dies Bobby has Jias hasto to be bi allowed to 1st let the tho blocks fall falland falland and enjoy enjo that s stage until he tires of-It of of It and learns by actual experience that there thero are ways of ot placing the blocks so that they w wont won't nt fall down b by building over O and over Un ls just which W way is right and which way vay is wrong and he has hs own his wn simple designs to encourage him and not the tho Intricate one lot his father which ho cant can't be e expected to imitate The only way be he becan can ca'n can the game with his father fa Js by bj wrecking wrecking wreck wreck- ing the block Ji house use and so all aU his fathers father's help Is wasted It is fine for parents to lend a helping hand when the child chUd asks for or it Jt but on one one- should keep leep ones one's hand off oct the child's childs toys He will find out obi their various s pos pbs tl's to him step steb by ste step steno no not I all ll at once How now how discouraging it would be for a u. student of oe archItecture architecture architecture arch arch- to attempt to draw for an office buildIng lie He learns bit by bit until the the- edifice so astounding astound astound- ing to uninitiated becomes m merely rely a series of details each of f which he has learned by Itself Mother l with an an mind f foreseeing res that the g game me may be concentrated In one corner may insist on Bobby bulJ building ing inga a house Instead of r the long train he I is in intent In- In tent upon pon Switching ideas cuts them down He isn't ready for a house at that moment but buta butI a tr train n and the wise mother will It MH It b be a train |