Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-03-01 | Page 14 | Baby Needs Regular Schedule for Sleeping and Daytime Activity

BABY NEEDS REGULAR I 1 SCHEDULE FOR SLEEPING J AND DAYTIME ACTIVITY n. n By MYRTLE MEYER lt ELDRED Bril Bring your our problems about diet dict general Jcl earn caro and management of children to Myrtle Meyer Eldred Your questions will ho answered promptly if it you OU will send end n a self Mel addressed ed 3 stamped envelope ens-el- ens ope with your our letter to Mrs lrA Eldred El- El ired dred in Iii care of the tho Your Baby antI and Mine linc department of this er Every household differing in daily routine must plan schedule in accordance w with th it When the father lather of oC the thc family goes to work woric at ati 4 i a. a m m. and returns home early in the afternoon it is ismore ismore more moro than possible that the baby of the household will waken at that hour for tor his first feeding and end his own day at 4 p. p m m. m If It instead the household is at attuned at- at tuned tUl to late rising hours there is no real justification for the routine which starts baby's day at 10 or or- 11 in the morning and ends at that time at night It is vastly Important Important tant that children be awake in the daytime and asleep at ni night ht It is inevitable when such an unbalanced unbalanced schedule begins begin operating for or whatever reason that mothers who want recreation at night will use their baby's habits as justification justification cation for it S In effect they will viII say Well Vell II he hc doesn't sleep anwa anyway we might as ns well take him o the movies Allor All of or which merely perpetuates a habit which might have been temporary if iC immediately corrected The habit of oC staying awake until 10 or 11 p p. p m. m is just a habit and bab baby no more enjo enjoys s 's these hours o of wakefulness than he would enjoy enjo the morning ones He may at first have ha stayed awake for some reason related to his food or to overlong afternoon naps and it is these situations situations situations sit sit- which demand treatment One should not succumb to an unnatural unnatural unnatural un un- un- un natural schedule and make it seem to be he baby's own choice The baby should become used to the Idea Ideo that bedtime f follows the thelast thelast last Jast daytime meal The leaflet Hours of Sleep indicates the proper but flexible routines which can be suited to each individual home Please send self addressed 3 stamped envelope elope to Myrtl Myrtle Meyer Eldred care of or the Your Bab Baby and Mine department of or thIs thU n newspaper r. r The bab baby and the young child should not expect pleasurable ac at night It is the child acceptance of these routines as 31 natural natural nat nat- ural which makes snakes it impossible for there to arise those situations ir In which the mother says Baby wont won't go to sleep until 10 10 or more often Orlen until the family goes gocs to bed One knows without being told that when a child is stubbornly opposed op Ope posed to good time night-time habits habit It is because he has never been ac ae to them from rom infancy Naturally it is just as easy to lish poor as good sleeping habits habit But dont don't blame the child