Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-02-11 | Page 8 | Your Baby and Mine

Your Baby and Mini e i B By MYRTLE l MEYER ELDRED BANGING PANS rANS INTERESTS BABY BADY 1 I IMORE MORE TITAN THAN N QUIET PLAY t Parents are prone to 10 irritation be because because because be- be cause of the thc childs child's lack of oC concen concen- In their c eyes es there is something some some- thin thing hing woefully wrong with the child I Iwho Iwho who dashes from one amusement to I Ithe the next who drops blocks for a doll dolland dolland i and the doll for a string of or beads all allin alln in n the space of or a few moments I Such play is natural to childhood The childs child's memory is short and his I attention span spat limited If Ie he is surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded by toys their fascinations I lead him astray He is easily dis dis- dis- dis At this stage the parent thinks it itIs itis itis Is her duty to sit down on the floor and md teach the child how v to play If Ie she will show him how to build up the blocks into a satisfying solid structure structure structure ture so she thinks hell he'll know what blocks are arc for and will imitate her THE TilE LESSON l She insists that bab baby sit git beside her while she shows him how to use blocks Baby Daby watches The blocks go o up into inlo an Intricate tower Six blocks then four tour then two and then a neat neal one on top Baby looks at it it then with one swoop he knocks them all allover allover allover over and lau laughs hs glee gleefully ully at the crash Mother tells father about it afterward after after- ward I showed him how to build up the blocks but he pays no attention I 1 dont don't know what is the matter with that child Hes He's just destructive He doesn't know how to play INTERESTING TOYS Children learn how to play by being being being be be- ing given toys that interest them at each stage of ot their growth My leaflet Toys Tos for lor Various Ages suggests the types of ot toys suitable to the child at each sta stage e of oC his growth A self self- addressed stamped envelope should accompany your our request The small baby likes nothing better than a rattie rattle rat rat- tle tie to the of ot his fin replace joys fingers ers i and toes with which he has heretofore heretofore hereto hereto- fore tore been fascinated He looks hereto i at nt the bright color gives the rattle an experimental experimental ex ex- shake He listens intently intent intent- ly to that lovel lovely noise Then he puts the r rattle ittle to his lips Bps and licks its smooth surface Hes He's playing with I Ithe the rattle From then until he is 2 years of oC age hell he'll be busy all aU day playing with whatever comes to his hand Hell He'll want big biJ blocks that he can put to together together together to- to gether easily with a lot of oC puffing and lappy appy straining Hell He'll wa Want hat he C can throw H Hell He'll ll bit big btu md pans md and beads Hell He'll W want t l p Po to pull and W want nt cb carry Cury abou eil run from one to the hes he's tired of sit and put luggIng Sn blOt bb W pans pan he other then dJS dump them one at tart ou out over Carrying a toy j in land tand hell he'll walk up and ctt down dO is s intent on this climbing as M most on fascinating cam game came lowed owed Children to amuse learn thc themselves to play by bern as lS they wish The adult u dom or should never enter in la tried to imitate 1 J If chii childr adults can put their the toy toys us uses thai they t to Wh Q become so discouraged that I would b be work Instead p play The of ot fu fun dren can concentration pull out the with which chr p pa pans f from cupboard and stack them in in them out again with and S a bang brings any real satisfaction parent who yearns for Cor quiet cS to t the and tidy play It r a cone can stifle these Yearnings yearning she rj l accept the childs child's play a a. Su hb of ot learning and and th therefore re T experimental Their Irritation and will vill easily dL inU plan planted led by helpful d desire to the he material 1 and the play l pace Phee let nature do th the rest rest a Tomorrow Baby Doesn't ht r. r Good Habits Juat to Be The earliest known In the third dynasty 45 B. B C. C J