Show IMAGINATION PRO PROVIDES PROVIDE VIDE REAL ASSIST ASSISTANCE ANCE FOR ENFORCING DISCIPLINE DIS Growing Child Has Sense of of Own Ego Wants ants Choice in Conduct I IBy By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Every child will enjoy occasional occasional occa occa- meals out of Mrs Eldred has prepared a special leaflet Outdoor Lunches full of su suggestions for open air meals If you wish a copy send a self addressed cent 3 stamped envelope envelope en en- with your request to the Your Baby and Mine department department depart depart- ment of this newspaper The mothers mother's imagination plays a n lar large c part in successful ful parenthood and no place Is it more urgently needed need ed than in anticipating obstacles and devising weapons to u. u use e against them Any child will inevitably reach a period when acquiescence to the mothers mother's wishes is going goin to be ob oh- noxious The child may have no rca real quarrel with going to lo bed bcd or eating his cereal or coming when called But when he be has reached a 3 certain period he rebels because doing what his mother says sas leaves him out of the picture And the child is intensely aware of ot his own wn indi Here his hi mothers mother's anticipation comes into play She knows that children chil chit children dren of 2 to 3 rebel against doing as they are told not because it is i. unreasonable unreasonable un un- un reasonable or even inconsistent or unusual They just want to have some part in choosing their own conduct So the mother does docs not grow dicta dicta- and say Now you do what I IS Isay S say l because I say so She respects his newborn personality personality person person- and his desire to assert it ant and she finds imaginative ways of oC allowing allowing allow allow- in ing him a choice of ot HOW he wants to do a thing the thing of ot course being the same old thing hes he's been doing all the time Bed must be submitted to ever every night and once in the daytime But Bu when mother says enthusiastically Ill bet I know a little boy who ca can hop upstairs two at a time or backward backward backward back back- ward or crawling or helping his mother anyone can see that whichever whichever which which- ever way he chooses to go upstairs to bed he will end upstairs and that tha bed will be close dose and habit strong But he has satisfied his ego by th the independent choice offered to him He may not be sleepy sleep sleepy and w go to sleep All right says his mother b you OU can He In your our bed and he ho your dolly close close or or r watch the cl do until it is time to get up or h ha covers or no covers covers or or toys toys toys-or or r J i toys toys toys-or or number of any harmle I to lying quietly in fc bt Again the choice satisfies the chi chIi And the habit of at lying in bed qu quit at a certain hour inspires the nap nap- Routine tasks get monotonous 1 J ing ordered about rubs the you personality the wrong way Why use we imagination to make da daily y tu ta more interesting r respect the chit chili wish to have some individuality II t develop his ability to ways of doing things v i ii |