Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-20 | Page 10 | Baby Who Will Not Sleep at Night May Need Fewer Naps

BABY WHO WILL NOT SLEEP AT NIGHT MAY i. i I NEED FEWER NAPS NAPS' By MYRTLE MEYER IElER ELDRED I IThe The nap periods which co come jI s 1 regularly once onee or twice a day ft In J 1 the life Ute of oC the tho l. l young e child ild seem t the parent to tobe be destined to go o Dl forever She is bewildered and un ue-q ue j prepared for the day when the c cwill will without warning suddenly df 1 cide to stay awake at an nn hour when he has always slept There Is no one answer for but certainly the childs child's whole da dayl needs to be scrutinized with ith a to determining what might nee need need changing to be beneficial to th sleeping habits habit Mrs R. R H. H writes For Fot the past past few nights my 10 old month baby has cried so much alter after being put to bed as to cause him to vomit up his bottle Id I'd have to clean him up after which ho he refuses to go back to sleep I J He t feels els fine eats well elJ plays lays and sleeps nicely during the day but the past four tour or five nights bu as' as acted this way I have been told tl to tol I leave him alone and 1 let t hint him yell yeU 1 himself to sleep 1 His father is very stubborn and 1 was spanked quite a bit as 33 a child Now he is so sulky that he often I goes on sprees of not talking for 1 days Will the baby inherit this i I should like like- your leaflets on How to Meet the ChUd's Childs Managing the Child Wisely and Dealing With the tho Childs Child's Curl Cnn The leaflets have been sent you in the envelope lope you It i Is Ismore 4 more than possible that the baby would do better with but one long nap a day instead of the probable two which he is now taking Try this and see how it works i Or cut the afternoon nap short shorn by going in one hour after baby baby begins to sleep and walk around the room until he wakens A baby of of this age cant can't sleep half the morning morning morning morn morn- ing and half the afternoon and and then be ready to go to sleep at 6 61 j for tor the night Allowing him to cry himself to sleep is as bad bada a habit a u as any other Sulkiness is a small childs child's re response response ye- ye to failure to get his own way This is the result probably J of a too domineering and punitive i parent who didn't often enough allow al allow al low him to do as ne he ho pleased sUch dispositions are not inherited out but they are all too easily Imitated Father should grow up now that that he has a baby for whom to act as a amodel model of the kind of conduct he wants perpetuated d. d 11