Show Your Baby And Mine By MYRTLE l MEYER ELDR IJ r S BABY IS RESULT OF 1 MOTHERS MOTHER'S ERS ER'S HANDLING G Oh fOh my baby has such a temper If It I dont don't do something now hell he'll grow worse and worse At this point one visualizes a rather mature child with a n bad disposition But no the b baby by so it happens is only live months old and is already an emotional emotional emo emo- motional mo- mo problem to his mother MISUNDERSTOOD The baby of live five months is in almost every case not only a misunderstood child but a mishandled one A baby has but one way of Indicating his distaste for lor whatever disturbs him He can only cry Jf If he is hungry i if his young mother handles him too roughly j if he is bound too tightly in a small mall crib or carriage or by clothes or covers he perforce must scream until these wrongs are righted Undoubtedly when he screams his face tace will grow red and he fulfills in his mothers mother's eyes the complete picture of an angry child The outrage is to allow a child to tobe tobe tobe be aroused unnecessarily to such a degree of temper Some red faced d wailing during the day is quite natural natural natural nat nat- ural and not at all harmful but long spells of crying indicate something To ignore them or to encourage them in order to teach baby that crying gets him nowhere is simply cruel and useless and the worst of training AROUSING ANGER ANGERA A baby need be only a few hours old before deliberate frustration of his free movements will arouse anger When we are open-minded open about cr crying cry cry- ing tog we admit that certainly babies I do not cry for the pleasure of cr crying cry cry- ing Lag but largely because o of some need A mother need not run the moment baby opens his mouth or need she worry when he prefaces his bedtime slumbers by some hearted half wails provided he is growing and gaining and healthy But she should be ready to wonder what is wrong rong and less inclined in iq- iq dined elined to call it an inherited bad disposition disposition dis dis- position when poor baby is trying to tell her that something needs changing chang chang- ing jag badly A baby's angry cries too often pu put the mother on the defensive and make it impossible for her to set out to discover their cause clear Tomorrow Eating Habits Suffer in Summer Time Any reader may obtain free help from Mrs Eldred on problems of or behavior diet and general care of her baby Explain your problem in detail de do tail and send a self addressed stamped envelope to the Your Baby and Mine department in jn care of this newspaper |