Show PARENT AID IN TOY PROBLEM AFFORDS VALUABLE TRAINING Playthings Sho Should ld Always Be Selected to Fit Childs Child's Age Bring your problems about ut diet general care and management manage manage- manage J ment to Mrs l Eldred In care of the Your Baby and Mine 1 department department de de- de of this newspaper Your Tour questions will wUl be answered promptly if you will vIll a self addressed ed cent 3 stamped envelope envelope en en- with your letter By MYRTLE 1 MEYER l ELDRED It is upsetting to any parent to note the rage with which a child will cast down his toys or kick and destroy them because they wont won't do what he wants them to do This impatience at the perversity of ol inanimate objects strikes her as a serious flaw in his character charade Her usual response and ordinarily a good one is to go up to th the child and quietly show him how to untangle the situation himself Let LeL him at ather ather ather her direction loosen loosen the wheel of the imprisoned kiddy car car or or right fight the overturned cart But let him do doit it B But t there may be other things amiss when the childs child's invariable reaction re re- action n toward his toys is helpless anger anger anger an an- ger or destructive rage It may well be that for the moment they are entirely entirely entirely en en- beyond his interest and under under- standing All toys are simple to a parent but they may be so complex to a child as to arouse in him nothing but anger at his hL inability to make them do his Especially is this apt to be betrue betrue betrue true when the childs child's introduction to the toy has been made by the parent He or she builds up the blocks into such a beautiful and stable structure or fits together the out cut-out parts of the pictured horse in a few nimble movements But the blocks topple over dIscouragingly for the child or orthe orthe orthe the pasteboard pieces refuse to make anything Angered by his defeat the child hurls the blocks against the wall or tears the pasteboard into bits being successful in these feats if not in those supposedly designed for or him The u use e of a too complicated toy defeats the child so constantly as to stifle stille all Initiative He doesn't want to play at all because b he feels that he can never master the game It is also true that children do not thrive on constant or easy victory with toys for their interest is short But they will not be Inspired to further efforts to play with a toy whose use is constantly foll followed wed by failure Blocks must stand up some of ot the he time Ume outs cut-outs go together occasionally occasional ly or else they are not satisfactory toys I IThe The parent should not not not-be be too ready to step in and interfere when things go wrong But the she he should be ready to substitute an old and familiar toy or one of less complex design when she finds the child invariably an m. angered angered by some particular one Our leaflet on Toys for Various Various' Ages which a mother may have by sending a self addressed three-cent three stamped envelope to Mrs Eldred of this department may help her herto to de decide decide de I cide why a toy is unsatisfactory and which ones will more ably meet the childs child's temporary interest |