Show I 1 Your Baby and Mine Mille I By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED I Hot weather brings with it prickly heat mo mosquitoes flies files s and other an Hints for the mother arc are presented in Mrs Eldred's leaflet Treatment for Common Summer An Send a self en bearing a n. three cent stamp with your request to the Your Baby and Mine department of this news paper PROHIBITION WILL NOT END BADH BAD DAD H HABITS ITS I Unfortunately bad habits often oCten begin be- be gin accidentally and baby discovers that bad habits are often more satisfying satis I C in than good ones Sucking habits habit of all nil kinds are arc allied to the baby's babY natural method of obtaining food anc ancI and I he finds that sucking is 15 a pleasing land and satisfying activity to pass away I the time Because of his satisfaction it is difficult to shatter the habit baby being far more ingenious than his parent in finding ways to fulfill his purpose TUn Young Mother has a baby who sucks his arm and arid hand and covers them with sharp little apparently to his Immense tion lion The mother has employed every conceivable method to break up the habit Lately she has bandaged the baby's arm but she finds this impossible impossible im im- un- un possible all of ot the time and the moment moment moment mo- mo mo mo- ment the bandage is removed back goes oes the arm into baby's mouth Bad habits are arc not except in limited limited lim Jim instances cured by frustration prohibition or punishment Such methods focus the attention of the child on what he is NOT to do His lIis interest is intensified and it becomes necessary not only that he indulge the habit but that he be victorious over the restrainer Bad habits are arc best dealt with indirectly Look not nol at the habit but at the child and his environment FIND CAUSE FIRST Just wh why It Jt is necessary for him to suck stick his arm or hand or thumb Is he kept imprisoned too lon long in carriage carriage carriage car car- or bed with no livelier means of amusement Is he hun hungry r Has Hashe Hashe Hasle he le too few toys tos with which to keep I his hands occupied Is he if an m older child denied childish companionship Is s he driven to practice some bad habit in order to attract his parents parent's attention The situations which cause such habits need correction before belore be- be lore fore 01 c much can be done about the habit itself Most bad habits ar are aro short lived If left eft alone This applies to the sex habits of small children which causes parents so much concern All such habits should be treated with v indifference indifference ference and any effort directed to toward toward toward to- to ward their correction should be done tactfully and indirectly My leaflets Sex Habits of Childhood and Nervous Nerv ous Habits indicate the type of treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment which is inevitably more successful successful suc sue than punishment frustration or other methods too often oCten employed Send self addressed be bering bear bear- a envelope ring r- r ing ng a cent 3 stamp with your our request requestor for or the leaflets Tomorrow Eating Out of Doors Spurs Summer Appetites |