Show LESS BRILLIANT GIRL 1 NEEDS TO HAVE HER TALENTS EXPLOITED t What better example could our children have than to follow th their ir parents Ever mother and fa father father tather ta- ta ther should read the leaflet entitled entitled entitled en en- titled Discipline for Parents You may have a copy of this leaflet leaflet leaflet leaf leaf- let by sending a self-addressed self cent 3 stamped envelope to Myrtle Meyer Eldred In care eare of Your Baby and Mine department of this newspaper By MYRTLE l MEYER l' ELDRED The problem of a Sl mother with two wo children one of whom is brilliant bril kant the other mediocre is a tense and serious one The mothers mother's sympathy sympathy sym- sym pathy is with the child who does docs her proud and unable to face her own partiality she blames tho less brilliant child and thus makes her own critical attitude justifiable Hore is a girl of 9 who is a slow student thou though h she has always made mado her grades at school She likes music and is Interested In it and her mother Is sure that she Bhe could do better in school if it she would only make the effort Lack of concentration the bromIdic excuse excuse ex ex- cuse for failure to excel in school again is offered The girl does docs not make friends easily When playmates come she lets them take the tho lead and follows them rather than own personality When adults are about aboul she gets In the way interrupts their conversation and wants to be no no- She Is amiable t to her mother good natured and easy to manage but shows jealousy o of her year 5 J- J old ear brother and treats him crossly On the contrary the year old boy is b a 11 natural showoff and the mother Is always being complimented compliment compliment- ed on his good looks and brilliancy The mother wants ants help in prodding the girl This is a household tragedy o of no subtle kind The mothers mother's attitude Is fostered by her pride in the smart boy and her shame in the fact that tha the th-e girl is neither his physical or mental equal The girl Is just as aware of ot the mothers mother's attitude as if she had been told It in so many words She tries clumsily to garner some of ot the at at- showered so generously upon the boy and is sent out of the room as a nuisance e. e She feels that tha she is inferior in school and the mothers mother's urging and constant pleadings pleadings pleadings plead plead- ings to try to do this try to do that arc are enough h to crush instead of stimulate stimulate stimulate her The only help can come from the source which has proved her undoing un un- un- un doing the doing the mother It is she who must ferret out and encourage the I childs child's arts and graces and capaci tics les She should be given the op on- 1 to study music Whatever What What- ever even she can do should be brought to o the admiring attention of others not for tor flattery but to build up th the i childs child's self esteem She should have have- 1 as much but no more attention than thair the younger child I When she feels herself hersel a. a as well well- I loved oved as the young brother she will cease to suffer from jealousy and the need for unnecessary notice and will vill become what she shows hows every indication of being beIng beIng-a a sweet and anel pleasing leasing personality y if not a brU bril one |