Show HABITS IN CHILDREN 1 I ITO TO WOO SLEEP NEED J i 1 SPECIAL ATTENTION Mrs irs Eldred has ha prepared avery n a very cr helpful leaflet leanet Cause of Sleeplessness that will ill help you to overcome o the tho problem of wh why y your our child does docs not want vant to sleep nights Send your jour our request est aslIng asking ask ask- ing lug for the leaflet leaflet- h by name to together to- to gether ether etherith with ith a self addressed 3 cent stamped stumped envelope to Myrtle Eldred in care caro of Your Tour Baby ah anti Mine line department of this newspaper By MYRTLE MEYER EYER ELDRED Most rost adults have a pet method of wooing sleep One may read herself to sleep whatever the hour another smoke make his mind a blank count sheep assume some particular position all an with the notion notion no- no tion Ion that unless he or she does docs one of these things he is doomed to sleeplessness Children quickly become fixed In Inhabits Inhabits Inhabits habits which relate to sleep Some children have favorite dolls doUs or animals animals animals ani ani- mals without which they cannot go goo goto goto to o sleep some children suck their thumbs or fingers rome ome a 11 pet blanket blanket blanket blan blan- ket corner Some cannot lie He down until a certain cover or sleeping bag bagor or comfort is adjusted over them no matter what the temperature After a time these habits tend to get on the parents' parents nerves They are ire less concerned with the harmfulness harmfulness harmfulness harm- harm of the habit than with than with Its persistence and its ridiculousness The child looks silly sucking upon a sheet however clean and when the object happens to be a blank from which he cannot be separated separate even long enough for it to be washed the habit becomes reprehensible Perhaps none of these would fasten themselves cs so upon the child except that parent parenti themselves are eager eager in In the begin ning to ning-to to foster any act which help heiN the child to go to sleep quickly S g they thrust a favorite toy upon him each night with ith the promise that the toy will keep him company Then when the child connects to ti toy so completely with sleep tha one is impossible without the oth othi the parents begin to regret habit they have been at such pains t establish i Parents do recognize that an any ceremony performed over and over ove again in the same way has a tremendous tremendous tre- tre allure for the child chUd Goito Gobi Goi to bed Is made easier if daddy aj always ale alewa wa ways s 's tells a stor story or a sl aJ wa ways s 's presents the same same toy to o o 1 wraps the child In the same bias blan blanket ket It remains for lor parents to make mak the best use of repetition with n allowing it to become so inflexible and so unchanging that the chil loses his sense of security when U tb situation Is changed in the slighter particular Keep the situation rela relatively lively the same but change it i ismall in small ways thus building up In th the child the recognition that sleep 1 h the constant and important factor but buc that the habits surrounding 3 Ican it itcan can be many and varied |