Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-10-26 | Page 9 | Repetition Pleasing to Small Children, Mor Will Find

REPETITION RE-PETION PLEASING TO SMALL CHILDREN MOTHER WILL FIND Variation of Single Word in Nursery Jingle Will WillBe I Be De Protested By MYRTLE MEYER METER ELDRED The problem of eloth for school Is Li discussed in Mrs BId Eld reds red's special leaflet Boys Boy and Girls' Girls School Outfits If U you ou want wanta a copy send a telf 3 cent stamped envelope with your your request to the Your Baby an and Mine department of this news new paper Please address addrell your request request request re re- re- re quest to Myrtle Meyer Eldred A mother who reads to her children discovers early how unavoidable arc are their heir demands that every word of at a astory astory atory story tory be the same each time she tells Jells or reads it Even babies come corne to love the he rhythm of their nursery jingles long ong before they understand the words This ones one's old And this ones one's young And this one has no meat This on ones one's a gone To buy sime some hay bay hayAnd hayAnd And this ones one's on th the street This one over and over again so that hat the child comes to love it and walt wait for it and demand to hear it rhythms of the Old Woman Who Wh Couldn't Go Home Hom are re excel excel- lent ent soothers The child relaxes and andis listens is tens hearing the pleasing words in satisfying repetition and first tirs thing you know hes he's asleep Wise mothers will make other uses of this recognition of a childs child's love o of repetition All AIl the little ceremonies of a childs child's day may b be gone through with y in Sn exactly the same way When the child is called to the table be e may start the chain of of pleasingly repetitious acts by going to the toilet toile washing his hands pulling out his chair adjusting his bib and waiting to be served Make each of them a separate ac act which follows in orderly enjoyable fashion on the heels of the oth other r mother prompting Now SNow what d do we wedo do and the child rushing eagerly to o make It all aU come about in exa exactly the same way as before belore And to go back to the stories Dont Don't be guilty of leaving out a word Tell the story each time the way it was told before Watch the childrens children's eyes pop as they wait walt for and anticipate the bi big thrill the big event that m makes kes th the story worth telling telling- I If youre you're a clever mother you'll youl wait just long enough the for for the child t to burst bunt forth with the word knowIng what a joy it is to be a personal par of the story and to personally stimulate late the mother to the familiar an and long felt emotion