Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-27 | Page 14 | Parents' Prejudice in Foods Shouldn't Influence Children

PARENTS' PARENTS PREJUDICE I IN FOODS SHOULDN'T INFLUENCE CHILDREN Baby Has I Right to Develop Own Tastes Nutrition Important By Dr MYRTLE IElE 11 MEYER t ELDRED Do you ou know how to dress your child during the hot summer sum um ummer mer months month Mrs Eldred's leaflet leaf let Dressing Infants and Children Chil dren in Summertime gives helpful help help- helpful ful suggestions Write for your our ur copy inclosing a self self addressed sed 3 cent stamped envelope with your request to this n newspaper Parents Parent should not allow their personal per food prejudices to Influence children though this is alwa always difficult dif di- di The question is most serious when because of personal 1 prejudices one parent or the other refuses to let certain foods appear on the table ta ble Carrying the matter to such extremes ex ex- denies the child the rI right hf not only to proper roper nutrition but likewise likewise likewise like like- wise to form fonn his own natural tastes as he will All of U. U us know small girls and boys bos who wont won't touch certain vegetables because someone whom they admire has a dislike for lor them Th These e freely expressed dislikes so 80 bias biu the child against the foods that he will seldom even make the effort to eat ent them much less to 10 like them A mother wrote me recently of a avery avery avery very strange prejudice her has against desserts The children like ve s sweets ts and when none is served at the table they constantly tease lor for money to buy candy or other sweet foods She has found that when she regularly offers them wholesome sweet desserts they lose their craving cray cray- ing for sweets between meals The obstacle 1 is the father lather who openly criticises this procedure He thinks it unnecessary to have hn d desserts serl thinks the mother is spoiling the children Somewhere it seems to me the father may have read something deploring deploring de de- de- de our per capita consumption of sugar and jumped to the conclusion sion that sugar and all things compounded com corn pounded of it arc are universally bad On the contrary any good food may be eaten moderately or in m excess While it is easy to build up an unhealthy un un- healthy appetite for sweet foods the ordinary diet contains sweet foods as part of Its necessities The breast fed bab baby has a ver very sweet food The bottle boUle fed baby has sugar in m his milk Later we include custards starchy puddings of or all kinds fruits which are more snore or less naturally sweet and then plain cakes cookies and gelatins all aU of which serve as a satisfying finale to the noon and evening meal Desserts for tor children must be simple simpie sim sim- pie ones not highly fat fried or thickly sweet foods which are arc cloyIngly cloyIngly cloy- cloy bigly unappetizing and do spoil the childs child's taste ste for lor sponge cakes and plain sugar cookies which he should have To deny the child all sweets is Ls to omit an important contribution to his energy needs and to lose the I highly interesting variety sweet foods alone can offer