Show l I I I I I i I Your Baby and Mine By MYRTLE MYER ELDRED I BABY REFUSES TO NAP SAP AND MOTHER l STEWS There are arc some characteristic tendencies tendencies tendencies ten ten- which children display with almost laughable regularity One of or them hem is that marked disinclination which crops up at about 2 years of age ge to take an afternoon nap The two wo following letters are so alike that hat they might have been written bythe by byl the he same mother When the disposition disposition tion ion to stay awake is so universally displayed it is the part of wisdom for or the mother to heed it She may maydo maydo do 10 this without fostering fatigue or ora ora ora a bad disposition late in the day Bobbys Bobby's mother has this to say Bobby is 21 months old He has been used to taking an afternoon nap and then hen going to bed at 9 p. p m m. Lately he ie wont won't take a nap but instead goes to o bed at 7 p. p m m. Do you think I should hould force him to sleep In the afternoon after after- noon as he is so cranky at dinner dinnertime dinnertime time ime Will Vill you ou tell me how much cod liver oil he should have da daily ly INITIATE REST PERIOD Manage the afternoon in this way Put Pul Bobby to bed right after aler his lunch giving him some toys reading leading some drowsy nursery rhymes to him on turning on the phonograph or radio softly See Sec that he stays in bed for forat forat forat at least an hour Then dress him and take him out for a walk or put pUl him outdoors to play for an hour When he grows cross at 5 o'clock un undress undress uno dress him and put him in a tub of at warm water and let him play there for lor 15 minutes or more Hell He'll be clean and refreshed and rested when he gets gels out Put on his ni nightie bath bathrobe bathrobe bathrobe robe and slippers and let him play in ina ina ina a warm room until dinner time It Is certain hell he'll be ready to embrace the sandman immediately after arter dinn din din- n ner Cr Even if JC he falls asleep during the rest period as he may if it no pressure Is put upon him to sleep h he should be awake and up by 3 at the very latest Then carry out the above program so that he is again read ready for bed at 7 Nine o'clock is no bed bedtime lime hour for Cor such a small gentleman Two to three teaspoons of oC cod liver oil oU daily given in divided doses is the usual amount mount Mrs M. M J. J S. S asks a very similar question Her baby is 20 months old and though he still naps it Is anI only three-fourths three of or an hour as compared to his former two and one-half one hours He wakens crying and ad bad tempered His mother admits she is frantic over this The meals are Breakfast Breakfast Bacon Bacon eggs cereal crackers and milk or orange juice in midmorning Lunch- Lunch Potato macaroni or rice vegetable soup meat and dessert Supper- Supper Cereal stewed fruit and milk He sleeps from 1330 to There here is little here to criticise The breakfast is an n unusually hearty one nc and it might be advisable to lo transfer the eg egg to the noon meal on da days s 's when meat Is not served Everything else Is fine line I would suggest that you follow rollow the plan outlined for tor Bobbys Bobby's mother Do Donot Donot I not be so upset about his failure to II I nap for lor as lon long as formerly If Ir the child has this tIlls rest resl period in the middle of or the day and sleeps 12 ed hours at al nl night ht he Is getting a sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- allotment of or sleep It is certain that after having clung to the nap habit for two years it must be a natural natural nat nat- ural development for baby to drop it Tomorrow Tomorrow Baby Baby Victorious In InThis InThis InThis This Silent Struggle |