Show Your Baby and nd Mine By MYRTLE MEYER l ELDRED ED BABY VICTORIOUS I IN THIS TillS SILENT STRUGGLE Some of the methods pursued by mothers in efforts to lure their children children chil chil- dren to take food are both pathetic and amusing The image of a mother sitting for tor an hour with a bottle of milk and gruel at the lips Ups of a child who during the entire time made not nota a single attempt to partake of it belongs belongs belongs be be- longs in a gallery of portraits of conscientious conscientious con con- mothers A sense of humor is invaluable in such a situation and recalls the old saw that one can lead leada a horse to water but cannot make him drink Even if It feeding Is a serious business on one m must st accept the fact that an ap ap- ap- ap I I petite is aroused when rood food seems precious and interesting not when it takes on the aspect of ot a punishment WILL NOT EAT Mrs D D. D OC has a baby 14 months who has weighed as much as 20 pounds but now weighs a little over 19 The baby has had a monthly inspection in inspection inspection in- in by a baby doctor Right flight now she is losing weight because of the advent advent advent ad ad- vent of the fourth of her molars For about a month she has refused practically practically I all aU food tood even her bottle She has taken the bottle only when it has been given to her not on schedule but any time she would woud accept it The doctor says ays that the only way to bring back her weight is to give her cereal her mother says this is easier said tha than done She has never accepted cereal willingly She has I been starved for a whole da day and then still refused it as strenuously as ever It was during this altercation altercation tion that the mother sat for an hour with the bottle botHe of ot milk and the cereal at her lips without the childs child's making the least effort to drink it If she Is given anything she dislikes she promptly vomits it REST OF THE TilE STORY This much of ot the story the mother has told and Im I'm wondering whether It is all Has the mother ever in her earnest endeavor to get the cereal or even milk into the child forced it upon her to the point of vomiting If this happened even once the child would have learned that vomiting was one type of ot protest against which the mother had no defensive weapons Stop trying to force cereal Mrs OC Space the meals at 7 12 and Offer OHer one teaspoonful of ripe sieved banana at 7 and then three or four tour ounces of skimmed milk At 12 offer a spoonful or two o of sieved vegetable vegetable and the same amount of skimmed milk by cup not bottle At 4 1 in the afternoon offer oHer a hall half cupful cupful cup- cup ful of ot sweet orange juice At the same as at 7 a. a ra rm NATURE COOPERATES Keep this limited food schedule up I for tor several days until the child chUd has developed a splendid appetite and has be begun un to appreciate food loud Then gradually gradually grad grad- but very ery slowly increase the amounts When the mother no longer long long- er attempts to force torce food when the molars are arc in in and are ceasing to Irritate irrItate tate the child nature will begin to work with the mother Hun Hunger er is s caused by little food at nt II long intervals and appetite by bya a pleasant memory of how good food was when it satisfied this hunger I Please Mrs OC send me a self self- addressed stamped envelope for my leaflet Physical and Psychological Reasons for Make some of its principles your our own Children learn to hate food tood Instead of enjoy it just because mothers are so eager to keep up the weight There is nothing to alarm you jOU in a small loss of of weight at the teething time It is istar far tar better for the baby's future to al allow allow allow al- al low her to wear of off natural naturally Tomorrow The Most Effective Discipline Is Painless |