Show s 4 YOUR BABY AND MINE By Myrtle Myrtlo Meyer Eldred Eldred 4 DISCIPLINE ESSENTIAL EVEN IF SPANKING IS TABOO Human nature Is Js accurately viewed t through rough tho the thousands of or letters which pass through my hands month monthly Just as a composite compos compos- ite portrait results in a definite type of at Individual so 80 do thousands of 01 letters result in a a. knowledge of a definite attitude of ot mothers This attitude is Js therefore typical of or large groups of Individuals We find two very definite attitudes Attl atti tudes of or mothers on the subject of discipline discIpline- especially spanking and they are aro amusingly characteristic The mother is never nevel ver very suro sure of or herself She does docs not spank because someone has s convinced con call vinced her It ft Is a a. wrong typo tYVe of ot discipline or else she is an individual indi vidual who couldn't spank a child oven even It If sh she sho wanted to But alwa always she Is somewhat diffident about ex expressing ex cx- cx l pressing her opinion Not so ISO the tho spanking mother She too Is is typIcaL She is always s 's very vehement in expressing her hel ion Also she sho Is ready to revile revUe anyone anone wh whO doesn't believe bellevo as she does Silo She nets acts as if It she alone had discovered spanking and should have havo a 1 medal for tor being a a. strong and virtuous parent arent who r rules les her children with the rod She Sho is like lIc a a. small tug with a a. piercing whistle which in a n. sea full un of or calm ocean liners screams at nt them Look at mc me It Why these attitudes are typical of ot the two types of ot mothers is a n little litho hard to analyze There Thero la Is nothing original about spanking it has been going gaInS on for tor years with most Indifferent results Why any mother should consider that she needs any special commendation for tor using It Is la one ono of ot tho the eternal mys mys- teries Hero is a 3 mother who ho has lIas tried spanking and drawn her own con con- Having had the usual bad results from front spanking she sho now wants to throw discipline out of tho the window That is Js just justas faulty a conclusion as for tor the tho mother who gets results with ono one spanking to conclude that a n. spanking for tor everythIng everything everything every every- thing would bring equally good re ro- ro suIts Authority which in Is usually disagreeable die dis agreeable for tor the tho child has hos to be learned in the home Tho The methods by which It is learned are ara many and must bo be suited to the tho Individual sit sit- Our leaflet on Obedience and nd Discipline discusses discuses them Any Interested mother may have bavo this leaflet if she SIlO will wm send ri a a. self Belt addressed stamped envelope with her request to the Your Baby and Mine department of ot this news news- paper Mrs R. R E. E K R. says 1518 I r commend your stand on spankings After 20 years years' experience I ba have havo reached tile the conclusion that children of or good heritage he and right environment ent need no punishment in preference to a spanking Our two older children chil dren ciren were wera spanked by me until they were too old and then by their father Now they have no respect for cither of ot us We h have havo vo a a. younger child and have decided that if U there thero is ia nothIng nothIng nothing noth noth- ing but a spanking fitting tUng his crime there shall be bo no punishment Mont Meet parents in their endeavor to have bave other adults consider their children well wen behaved overdo punishment II Instead of ot considering misbehavior as 18 a a. passing stage u. u |