Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-28 | Page 6 | Parents Sometimes at Fault for Fear Developing in Child

PARENTS SOMETIMES 1 AT FAULT FOR FEAR DEVELOPING IN CHILI CHILD 10 lJ Behavior May Be of Unhappiness or Discomfort I i iBy By ELDRED T I MEYER j R n. n I i Bring diet Your problems about 1 general care and meat ment to Mrs Mm Eldred manage Z manac-Z in the Your care caro o E Baby and Mine dc ot of this Your quest questions ons will be I de-I promptly answered promptly if yoU yu win a self addressed 3 en with your our l. l In many situations children conduct seemingly indicative of fear i and the mother is apt to ascribe t j to l fear that behavior which l U is mor nor rightly symptomatic of ot WJ or discomfort or lack of j Most babies babIcs at some time tim cr or crother other display what we call caU f tea j U the sight of ot strangers chief chien i cause strangers insist upon f i I them or giving them attention 11 I This Thi type of lea tear fear fearIs Is most q qui outgrown when the childs child's beh behavior is ignored and he learns that unpleasant happens to him in Inbe S be I presence of ot strangers If It his hI mo uses judgment and does not tie tic b bib bab to her apron strings so tightly th thai tha he is miserable without her she m ma may expect that his fear of at strangers trim be be only temporary SJ My leaflet Teaching the Be Independent offers suggestion i for this rather lengthy length training ess Send a seU self addressed stamped envelope for a copy of it But what Is a mother of at a three three- old year to do when the young man nun will not play with strange children when when he demands the sustaining and comforting presence of ot his hij mot mother moth moth- j er in order to be happy I First of at all he should never x be bel treated to the parental suggest t that he is afraid of strange chiW dren or that he always always' has to have his mother near him Under such an influence e a child chUd will continue continue con con- to be afraid of or stran strange e children and will continue to demand th the mothers mother's presence j Th The child who greets strang with a loud cry of fear might if fileR 1 alone and Ignored eventually mak male timid overtures to the Meanwhile if it this Is a regular b u Kip pening the child should be treated t to J j some stories about children and their a playmates When the strange chili chil appears he becomes identified in th the J mind of the timid child with these delightful playmates of fiction and he knows what is expected of hith We must be sure that the strange children make agreeable companion We must recognize whether the chil chili child is so spoiled as to bo be unhappy unless j he rules his companions and then he should be bo left alone to learn to carry out social situations without the help of his mother It is possible that only a nursery school will e ti- ti teach the child how to accept ae ac- ac 1 di and play with other children j