Show Y EID Et WHY CH CHILDREN MAY Y BE BEI I AFRAID t In children arc easily eILly accounted for because the tIo parents have hiLve be been n. n present when time the tern circumstance took toole place The Th h hugo huso go that dog Jumped at little Tommy Tom Tom- my and V him flat Jat will be bo rca rea re reason son non enough for lor Tommy's Tommys screaming himself blue blue-at tile the sight sight ht- ht of the most amiable b puppy Ear splittIng noises from any ny source frighten small chU children ren and to them to fear fean other things s which to the noises I but simply ly happened simultaneously with them them These tears rears ore are harder to 0 ferret out unless the the mother mother- Is well veil aware of oC the thc effectiveness of conditioning These learned fears rears make up the largo large proportion or tears which we ve carry as b burdens t through life andi their their- causes causes' auses' auses maybe m may maybe y be as great a a. the sufferer as as' as they are nrc to those bOut Thus get a a bad cut atthe at atthe the tho moment that thal mother Innocently turns Ion the OLa Or a sudden wind m may slam the door Inthe in inthe inthe the b babs bys by's b atthe h moment pt h he is falling asleep and after that Jane will scream In at t the sight of lacut cut and baby fight frantically fran fran- against being put In his bed only because their em emOtion Uon of tear fear fearis ear earIs Is now attached to the cut or orthe the bea bed though induced by the loud noise that accidentally accompanied them I Watson In his study of oC Infants discovered only two t things which frightened th the Infant nta a loud n noise lse and the tho withdrawal of oC support so 80 that baby thought lie ho wa va was falling These two o situations brought out out I. I definite signs of or fear The Thc y young in mother molher who puls her bed be In 1 th the combined rathel of ot ot l phonograph a a. love of or music may V be b Wonder vainly why baby ab hates lo sleep Noise of oC all kinds x- x Cv noises that adults co consider able abl may be ter to tu the child Certainly one ono would tad ha h call those these slumber 3 80 J music Children ren remember em r ex forgotten by their Barents ren WhO Si y helpless to lo to explain some Oti nonsensical fears sickness death and fear of ot them are ag are a 1 g sted t to children by bythe by the tb u t and the openly lety of at those thoc around them mothers mother's emotions during his illness 8 or herles' herles hc her wl ni lites les' les lesa a a bleeding wound are t donees donces of ot h her r o own n fears which child Is' Is to imitate t V tt i Grownups and anti old older r chU children n of 1 l take ke fiendish delight I In small children when they th are areto to togo go to school or 1 or to th the dentist the doctor Oh Ohm Ob these pr cIc who delight Un h o which the the child I Is abo about t to to eL eLonce exp once And Arid tIle the childs oC of or all this ridiculous lous' lous rj m seems most to them V nj ought t tc to kno know It isn't true true Vis' j excuse to them thern but not t th ri cred credulous lous chilI child who ho is lice lIc all toll him Fear is an In ex exciting as as Welt Well Welli L depressing emotion motion hilrea V are arc frightened of ot the a result oft in foods or lot of Imminent or experiences in them are quite to I t digest their food lOod It shourd shoula not n expected of them W We h Uld sincerely sorry for the child and doj every thing to er etaM raH M I fears Never Neer ne er never never- s shame them th m. m |