Show Your Baby and Mine BABY'S DESIRES SHOULDN'T GOVERN HOUSEHOLD The naive belief that if it a measured measured meas incas amount of anything is good for forone forone forone one an additional amount Is much better leads lead mothers to make strange errors A mothers mother's supreme confidence conti- conti dence in milk mUk as the childs child's finest food inspires her to Increase its consumption consumption con con- at a period when solid foods should occupy a place of ot importance The amount of milk is increased unconsciously when hen the child still takes his milk b by bottle and the more milk he demands and gets gds the more Indifferent h he ho remains to those solid soUd foods which are as essential to his physical d development as his supplementary supplementary supplementary supple supple- milk Mrs L. L Ks Cs baby has reached this indifferent stage TAKES NOTHING BUT MILK Will you please 5 send nd me rae your leaflet telling me how to feed my 19 old month-old baby asks Mrs L. L K He weighs 31 pounds and weighed 10 2 1 at birth He is smart for his age He wont won't take orange Juice no matier matter matter mat mat- ter i-er how I give It to him He wont won't eat cereals of or any kind He is very hard to feed because cause he wont won't eat cat any of oC the things that are good for him All AU he wants is his bottle of ot milk He will drink all aU I will give him l in a bottle but none in a a. glassI glass I give only the bottle at night when he is going to tosI sleep to-sleep sleep ep and in the afternoon when he takes a nap Sometimes he wont won't take one Could you tell me something to put In back backof of ot his ears They are always sore I and crusted In the creases It doesn't seem to bother him BABY RULES HOUSEHOLD Your baby certainly winds you around his finger What baby wont won't do seems to be the rule of the house house- hold Of course you realize that this I simply cant can't go on Youre You're feeding deeding the baby he isn't old enough and hasn't Judgment enough to feed himself himself himself him him- self properly Your trouble dwindles down to Just one item of Importance that bottle bottIe Without Without- it the child would have some Orne interest In solid soUd food So long as 85 he can have all the milk he wants by bottle he continues to be an infant in habits as well as diet Take the bottle away He can drink from a cup and if he refuses milk let him refuse it IL Hell He'll soon be so ravenously hungry that even cereal will look good to him USE INGENUITY Give him his orange in sections and let him eat it that way it will probably taste more appetizing to him Follow In every particular the diet list I am sending you Feed him regularly offer nothing between meals meats and give no milk to drink until until until un un- un- un til he has eaten his his' solid soUd foods beds A Aripe Aripe Aripe ripe banana is an excellent substitute substitute substitute tute for cereal and Is often acc accepted when cereals are refused Put Pitt the food before the child help him feed himself though himself though encouraging him him to manage part of each meal by himself him him- self self and and take him away from the table when he indicates s that he is through Catering to his makes it a a. behavior problem and If 11 he finds he gets no food except what you put before fore him it wont won't take a smart child long to to- decide to-decide decide what is best for him J The cra cracked ked ears can b be treated with some ome form of ot salve Oil the crusts well they until they fall off oft naturally natural natural- ly and then apply a a. zinc ointment or ora ora ora a tar salve A Apply ply this until th the ears are h healed led then be most careful careful care- care ful to when you wash behind the carsto cars ears carsto to dry the creases well weIl using powder powder powder pow pow- der if necessary to absorb any stray bits of moisture Tomorrow Ingenious Mother lother Lightens Tasks Tasu and Teaches Children Children Chilen Chil Chil- dren en Dexterity |