Show Your Baby and Mi Mine n I 4 By MYRTLE 1 MEYER l ELDRED Mothers should give thanks for forthe forthe the he daily dally evidences of a childs child's normal nor nor- mat mal curiosity about everything and anything Tho rho Intelligent parent recognizes curiosity as an evidence of f an alert mind It is the childs child's desire desiro to learn and constantly to enlarge his fields of knowledge which lead him to want to touch and hold and taste and experiment with everything which comes within with with- I in n his vision and reach If It the mother looks upon the chIlds chIld's curiosity as an annoyance which drives her crazy it is al almost almost almost al- al most certain she will deal with it improperly Her natural reaction will be to curb it to it-to to say menacingly menacing menacing- ly f Dont Don't touch that ah oh ah hands ah-hands hands off ff or slap These arc rc inevitably the very methods which drive a child to rush hither and yon devastation in his wake vake the moment the maternal eye yc is directed elsewhere In a n few moments' moments time he has to do all the explorIng and experimenting which is s denied him when mother is about Our leaflet How to Deal With Curiosity suggests the better method meth- meth od d of handling this natural stage of childhood It may be had for a self addressed and cent 3 stamped envelope sent to Myrtle MyrtIe Meyer Eldred Eldred El- El dred of the Your Baby and Mine department of this ne newspaper Mothers must recognize the childs child's necessity to feed his hungry I mind He cant can't take things for I granted He cant can't be satisfied with I seeing us do things He has to be behe bethe bethe the he motive power himself The Themore Themore Themore I more things he Is allowed to do and do p carefully the more quickly does his own activity satisfy him and then hen he Is ready to push on into larger arger fields learning more and more of his world The child is not intent on destroyIng destroy- destroy Ing ng his mothers mother's pos po's possessions But accidents are inevitable when a achild achild child hild is small and clumsy So really precious ornaments china and glass all ill fragile objects should be moved beyond the childs child's reach Let the world he lives Jives in offer him constant Incentive to learn by satisfying his curiosity about it But let it be as nearly as possible a safe world so that hat his explorations do not lead him into danger nor to destroy his parents' parents valuables |