Show ACTION NOT TALK 1 PROPER COURSE lF IF IF BABY SAYS Nl I 1 WON general Bring Brine Brie your Ute care our our- problems and abOut abat ij w children to Myrtle Myrile e t I Your questions win j jS promptly If it s you ou win will 1 W e t i a. a dressed 3 cent stamped d fI with wih your Jour letter leter to sirs J earn care cae of th thi th Yon on flaby bJ an and E g department of this thisBy t. t By MYRTLE ME MEYER MEY ELij 4 f EB Thee The hardest t Te thing a mother be told to do Is to ac act mote e talk She wants certain certin IC act formed and she tells tell the thud ca and te and then when the child blithely on his way U g 2 the voice or the thc word th the is I helpless U I tell tel him an and tel him him- she explains She never ne er understand why telling is I eem z 10 Il 6 t. t n 1 All children get to that ll tat ann o stage when in a most con convi way wy they can cn stamp their feet and yell yel Wo o in man to paralyze the most moat mot adult What shall she he do dois thea ten is the mothers mother's worried query answer is simple simple quer I ct act 4 Bobby had arrived at the a negativistic period perlo Especially a he at odds with wih his bath w He hated to be dragged p fj away fro his hi to be bc b bathed frO ant dres dressed ed 1 j His mother was a considerate conscientious young woman woma j S 'S Sh asked herself hersel a dozen perti i questions aWas a- a Was Vas the bath water too war Wf Had she torn him too abr abruptly his plc pleasant play Had she aU fm soap to run in his e eyes es Wu sleepy at and unable l ta enjoy It il to n 4 I She remedied every p possible d feet She provided bath toy toya sibl a argued and cajoled and scold scolded d S i s spanked The net result was wu js j nothing Bobby still struggled acted like a little sW splashing her with wit water wrecking her attire attre and her J At last lat weary of this silly siy resistance resist resist- reals- reals ance she decided that and ailt d' d punishment and wheedling were ill all I wrong Bobby had to have a b bath and a bath she would give him him S Sa s 1 when arrived she announced an- an It in an impersonal tooL tone Come up to your bath Bobby Bobb t and forthwith she took his hi Bbb hanth and ad drew him struggling and protesting pro pre pr testing up the stairs stairs t She never said a word to him hIm She I ignored his protesting I dont don't wa Wanta Want a bath I wont won't take tko a 8 bath bat YOU cant can't make me roe and drew the water waters and put him in the tub tul She him without apparent attention t tt t his hi vigorous slapping of the wat water wate She gave him a towel and told him hini to dry himself and went out of ti tt room t tAt At first he ran after her h Ing In that he wouldn't but she re rt- rt 1 in d m unperturbed some job and eventually seeing that and struggles availed him nothing and that in this situation he couldn't be boss he accepted the bl J On the fourth day when he went into the bath and began to pl pl with his tub toys toy sailing saing a blo pink fish sh with e enjoyment t the mot moth moth-i cr r realized the silly wat of of her previous efforts effort t. t |