Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-17 | Page 8 | Regularity in Child Training Important in Guarding Health

REGULARITY IN CHILD It TRAINING IMPORTANT IN GUARDING HEALTH Habit I Influences Appetite and Digestion Basis for Discipline MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Do you know how to dress your child during the hot summer months Mrs Eldreda leaflet Dressing Infants and Children in Summer Time gives helpful suggestions Write for tor your copy enclosing a self addressed three- three cent stamped envelope with your request to this newspaper The emphasis upon re regularity is so much a part of the child training program that we arc are apt to forget why we adopted it iL The value of ot regularity is triple triple- fold First digestions work better belter when they are regularly and not haphazardly taxed The Thc digestive juices are arc arc ready for action at those hours at which we vie have accustomed the ho stomach to expect food Not only is hapit an Influence upon digestion but likewise upon appetite The baby displays his hunger at the hour which has been set for his feedings In n fact hunger as a n motive for cat eat as ing rig a can machine be be made to act aj u regula y t tas Psychologically regularity ha has 1 second definite value The baby who is fed whenever he cries comes cornes to look upon his cry as the force whIch produces food He then begins X to use that same cry for the production of other personally pleasant jf happen happ t ings g But when bo bottles lles or oi- foi tallow tal- tal low some def definite rhythm en entirely outside of ot baby's control the baby a amade i made acquainted with what we n recognize rec rec- r I as authority This I is the first step In d discipline For it S Sis is recognition of authority and Will lint to accept It without reject ment which makes it easier for baby to accept other types of discipline I. I later The value of anticipation instead instead- of ot an immediate satisfaction of his hunger when he cries thus Influence influences baby's future contentment The third factor is our perception that everything in m life lite Is so regular that we wc may consider r regularity a a. i universal law of nature The move move- ments of or the moon the sun the d dearth earth the physical cycles of ot life arc all regular and predictable Putting baby's system in tune with v this tm tint Uni is obviously to work vork with what must be a harmonious law of ot human nature At any my rate regularity 1 has proved itself in practice to be 3 the best st method o of training the young oung 4 1 4 human being Nevertheless we cannot overdo even this excellent method but rau must leave room for the baby to be some son thing thing beside a regularly working ma chine 4 i 1 h 6