Show Your Baby and Mie Mine Bring problems to Mrs Edred in care of the Your Baby and Mine department of of this newspaper Your questions queston about diet diet general care and management management manage ment of children will vill wU be answered answered an an- an prompt promptly if i you will wi enclose enclose enclose en en- close a sel self addressed three cent stamped envelope with wih your letter let let- ter If children are are ever to lo understand mone money oncy they must actually man manipulate pu late te it it No one can learn lear by being told lold Id how money is spent and saved Only b by spending the mone money seeing what hat it buys bus how fast it i goes is i one able ble to reach that later step which is i a joy oy to be derived from manage manage- ment ent and saving The Te ideal wa way of course would be beor for or children to earn cam their spending money oney But Butin in i most mot homes home the only way ay of earning earing would woud be to do household houseold house house- house hold old tasks When we pay a child for or performing household duties dutes we run up p against two problems problems The Thc Te child ehUd gets get ets the wrong idea of or housework feeling eeling that it has a money value alue Likewise he feels feel that if i he doesn't want ant the money he doesn't need to work ork Neither of these tese is i a desirable situation Household ld tasks tk have no money value for the person in the home home jome They are part par of each Individuals ual's al's als responsibility in i a shared home Children as well wel as a the mother and father ather must bear part pa of ot this ti responsibility without thought of tion on ton At the same time an allowance should be given to children as a part par ot of f their privilege as a members of the family amily The small child needs smal nee pennie pen- pen ales nie les for this thi is i all 1 he has ha the abit ability to t spend The older child needs nee a growing rowing allowance commensurate wIh with his needs need My leaflet Allowances Allow ances for Children suggests sums sum which ar are in most mot cases ces adequate for forthe forthe the he growing child It I may be ob ob- tamed by sending a self addressed cent three stamped envelope to me mein mein men in n care cae of ot this t department Ask Ak for forI forIt fort It I t by the above title tte No mailer mater how small smal the thc allowance the he parent has ha no right to t dictate its is use uc To give a child 10 pennies and anday say sa- ay that so much must go into her savings saving bank and ad so much to Sunday school chool is i to t deprive the child of all a experience in managing t this 1 money An allowance is i to t spend No doubt there will wi be an utter uter waste wate of ot the money for some time tie The Te whole five or ten pennies may maybe maye be e t thrown owr away according to the parent parent But this Is i exactly the ex ex- needed t to show the child hat happens happen when an allowance is gone fone and ad how far it may be expected to o 10 go It I may be better beter at first firt to toive t give ive the the child an allowance every ever other ther oter week then once weekly then twice wice monthly and once monthly This Thi depends depend upon the childs child's wise wie use of his hi allowance We all al learn by our mistakes Lehe Let Le Lette he the te c children make theirs with wilh wih pennes pennies pen pen- ales nies nes rather rater than put off ol the day when wisdom will wl supposedly be theirs anc and they hey can be trusted with wih large sums sum That Tt day comes only upon a fouda- fouda Ion Hon ton of ot the first experience |