Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-27 | Page 8 | Spanking Bewilders Children; Proper Training Needed

IS SPANKING PAN KING BEWILDERS CHILDREN PROPER TRAINING NEEDED By MYRTLE MEYER ELn ELDRED In dealing with toilet tonet training ti mistake made by almost every mou er cr Is to imagine that when a acan ch can wait for attention from t parent when parent when he is old enough i know what is expected and anti can ui that that he will also enough to indicate his neel needs W wh they arise It is probable that a child o of ot years could tell his mother if it j sat all day in a corner and about nothing but the symptoms symptom 0 his need for toilet attention B Bno Bno Bu Buno no such child exists The child chUd is U busy human being He plays games which enlist his whole inti inter interest est eat for lor the moment He is with children who are companions very often for 0 01 short periods periods' during the day a athus athus athus thus to be enjoyed to the limit f Ii that time He may be out of doors bundle to 0 the eyes and disliking the yea very thought of at having hilving to be brought i and unwrapped and then subject l again to tue always disagreeable wrapping up process 1 are innumerable perfectly legitimate reasons why the child childs mind is diverted from the necessity to tell his mother when he wanto wan wanti to go to the t toilet ilet Then Jhen instead d of Gf f recognizing these reasons the mother moth er or considers her childs child's failure Latell lo tg loell tell ell her as an indication of th thi failure allure of her training J Mrs F. F J. J W. W writes Can yO yog give me a suggestion as os to how U Urain train rain my year old to tell me he needs to go to the toilet Hi He can talk but he win wil wilnot not tell me mc I 1 have bave tried but to no avail i This last Jast may be bc one reason tin the training has failed to take Y Yet Yam Q only bewilder the child by spanking him nim for the performance of acts act which you want him to continue He rie doesn't understand often that ilIs it il itIs itis Is his way of oC performing then them which you ou dislike and probably thinks hinks you look upon the whole whelm toilet situation with distaste and disgust 3 Our leaflets Training for 1 Habits and Retraining for Cleanly Habits which you may have for or-a or a self-addressed self and cent 3 stamped envelope sent to Myrtle Meyer M yer Eldred Eldred El El- dred of the Your Baby and Mint Mine department of oC this newspaper an in designed to help the mother to continue con continue the patient repetition of thi tb kind of toilet situation you want the thi child to establish 0 But it may be months before beCore the tbt child can be given the responsibility of telling you OU though your owl efforts meanwhile will keep him dry dij and clean which is exactly whit what you OU are trying to accomplish sh