Show PLEASANT CONDITION CONDITIO NECESSARY FACTOR 1 V HABIT FORMING DAY Children Learn to Do Things I Better When Mother Helps Them By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED When the school child must carry a lunch box it is essential that the food be nourishing and stimulating to the appetite Write to the Your Baby and Min Mine department department de do- of this newspaper for Mrs Eldred's leaflet lennet School hoot Lunches for the Child Be sure to enclose a self addressed cent 3 stamp stamped cd envelope There Is a law Jaw of or learning which says that learning Is facilitated when all its accompaniments are arc pleasant Many mothers contend that a child has to learn to do things and if he doesn't he has hilS to suffer the consequence conse conse- quence To this end when a child refuses to comply with their demands demands de de- mands they leave him alone llone to cry it out If It we stop to consider the learnIng learning learn learn- In ing law we can easily see that if there is some habit we want the child chUd to learn we do not teach him by letting him cry We do not help the child to go to sleep alone unless we make all the surroundings of sleep pleasant First of ot all baby has to be sleepy so we must be on the alert for those periods when the child naturally naturally nat nat- tends to sleep less and not expect to force more sleep by letting letting let let- ting him cry himself sick If we Intend to teach toilet tonet habits we c cannot pen the child up in the bathroom tie him there and let him cry until he is released He l learns arns nothing by that thal We cannot expect him to learn to play by himself Indoors Indoors In ln doors or out unless we make that playing pleasant We have to find some way of accomplishing our goal besides just leaving the child to howl himself hoarse Most mothers who attempt this out it policy have to submit Inthe in inthe inthe the end Its value if any is lost when the child is taken out of his room out of the bathroom in the house and so on before he has submitted submitted submitted sub sub- to the She inevitable Suppose a n mother puts her baby in bed because he must take an hours hour's nap and during that whole hour the child cries At the end of the hour the mother can satisfy herself herse that her objective has been won But from the baby's standpoint HIS objective ob has been gained He has learned nothing except that next time if it he will continue to howl liberty liberty liberty lib lib- lib lib- erty will be his What arc we trying to teach a child to cry or to conform If it is conformation conformation conformation con con- formation we have to think hard to tomake tomake tomake make the teaching of the habit pleas picas ant Then the child learns That method takes more time and trouble than l letting the child cry himself hoarse but the authenticity of the law it follows cannot be disputed |