Show Your Yon Baby Anti And nd Nine inc nt II By Myrtle MyrtIe Meyer Eldred DEFEAT HOME HOnIE TRAINING Now that children are out of doors most of the day the mothers mother's troubles troubles trou- trou bles les are by no means ended She faces aces the problem of or what to do about bout the neighborhood children who ho are usually a continual problem to o her When the children spent much of their time in the house she could manage to encourage only tho those lose so visitors who were suitable com com- With the children running wild she has less and less Influence on nfl n U tn Pan I j In every very neighborhood there Is alays always al- al ways ays some one child who Is anathema ma to the mothers It may be aboy a aboy aboy boy or a girl girI but in either eUller case the children hildren are ruled by that iron hand The boss possesses possesses' himself of or any hild's hilds toys and brooks no ence nce He uses terrible language which I all 11 the other children immediately I make their own In fact tact that child chUd I is s always the reason for every other childs child's bad manner misbehavior I and disobedience He is the one rotten rotten rotten rot rot- rotI I ten apple that spoils the sack sad of good ones MOTHERS FIND CONVENIENT ALIBI As long as mothers can find tind such a convenient alibi aUbi they need never neve look ook too closely at their own faulty management What would mothers mother do without some child In the neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- to blame for the sins o otheir of their own children I When a mother says to 00 me That child chUd is a bad influence on my child I want to know immediately ChUd Why isn't your child chUd a good Influence on l him m If your own child is surrounded surround surround- ed cd by all the right Influences 1 if your understanding your our willingness to talk frankly to the child chUd and your our dally daily example can be so easily overthrown overthrown overthrown over over- thrown by one child of what value alue are they You see the absurdity of it yourself I There is in my opinion only one I factor in a neighborhood situation that makes the least bit of or difference differ cUtter ence crice and that f factor tor is easily con con- trolled trotted Are Arc your children playing with children their own age That Thatis is 15 the important the very ery important thing Nothing else matters very vcr much What they learn from each other can easily be counteracted by bythe bythe bythe the influence of or the home SUITS PLAYMATES TO CHILDS CHILD'S AGE It is bad for a child chUd to 00 be the companion companion com corn panion of an older child chUd The older child chUd needs the stimulus the social development that is possible only with children his own age The younger child needs to 00 practice being be being being be- be ing leader as well as follower to think for himself When ages are so ro divergent the development of both the older child chUd and younger child chUd suffers If It there is a child who obviously exerts an unwholesome Influence on ona ona ona a neighborhood do not make the thc mistake of ostracizing the child chUd and thus driving him into that despondency despondency despondency despon despon- dency and that sense of inferiority which further encourages the very thing of which you disapprove Our leaflet Sex Habits Common t to Childhood goes coes into this subject in further detail It will be mailed to any reader who sends a self ad dressed envelope to ro this department with e each h request Encourage children of or like ages to play together Then welcome into your home and under your good In Influence Influence influence in- in fluence the child who Is unruly or mismanaged or neglected at home Then his influence is nullified and you have not been guilty of penalizing penalizing ing a n child chUd for the mistakes of his parents J |