Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-06 | Page 6 | Your Baby and Mine

Your Baby And Mine By MYRTLE MEYEl ELDRED CHILD LEARNS ONI Y BY OWN EXPERIENCE Failure is most discouraging to a child He wants want to be successful at athe atthe atthe the he simple things he does otherwise he lacks lack the courage to attempt more complex activities Some parents are always at hand to work out the childs child's problems for or him They want not only a fingel finger finger fin fin- ger gel but a whole hand in all al the childs child's pies Nothing could be more discouraging The child may need needa a helping hand at some time but he learns lears earns more by his mistakes than he does when they are rectified for him himy b by y his parents parent DESTRUCTIVE When Arthur sits down on the floor loor foor to play with ith wih his blocks his first attempts will wi pr probably bably be more destructive destructive de- de than constructive If I he heiles piles pies iles one block on another and it falls alls down he is very apt to repeat I this his frenziedly setting up the block and and- pushing it i over with wih a loud and satisfying ban bang But when his young father setles set- set tIes les tes himself himsel on the floor foor to show his hison hisson hisson son on exactly how to make blocks stand one upon the other Arthurs Arthur's Interest begins to waver He may watch his father ather with wih some interest but his own contribution to the fun is to shove th he the edifice over LEARNING He cannot learn how to pile pie blocks by y watching anyone else pile pie them He Ic can learn only by piling ping them up himself himsel pushing them down and event eventually aly discovering by trial tria and error that there are ways to pile the he blocks that will successfully keep I one sticking on top of the other Once Arthur has learned leared this trick of bal bal- the blocks block its accomplishment accomplish ment merit will be more more exciting than to push ush them down But he must learn learnt it i t himself himsel and carry It on until fatigued fa- fa at which time hell he'll hel probably return to the simpler occupation of pushing the blocks over If I he tries tres to pile pie up blocks in imi- imi ii atlon tation of his father and they do not stay this thi is i definitely discouraging to o him Instead of playing until he does learn he may abandon blocks altogether They Tey are spoiled for him himy I Iby by y his failure and therefore he clings I to o those toys which he can manipulate late ate successfully and therefore sat sat- SUCCESS ENCOURAGES It is also true that parents act as discouragers when they suggest ways in n which toys shall be used instead of of letting the child chUd use them according accord- accord lag ing ng to the play patterns which he himsel himself him him- self sf sel initiates Each activity started and finished by the child according to tolis his lis own plan gives him the stimulating ing ng glow that is a part of success It Itis Its I is s this glow low which h spurs him on to different and more complicated acts By suggesting difficult feats before the child is able to imitate or accomplish accorn- accorn push them the parents give him the utile futile futie sensation of failure and effectively effectively stifle future efforts effort Tomorrow It I Is I Now Open Season on Cod Liver Lver Oil 01