Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-03-13 | Page 10 | Stop Cause When Child Misbehaves

Stop Cause When Child M Misbehaves By MYRTLE l MEYER ELDRED Sometimes it is difficult to decide just why parents punish their chil chil- dren Is it to Improve the childs child's behavIor be be- be havIor baylor Training not punishment punishment punishment punish punish- ment does that Is it to work of off the parents parent's emotion of anger I It could more gracefully be managed by doing some hard physical labor Is it done to impress outsiders that thai your child is not getting away with anything Of Ot all aU reasons this is the least excusable Makes Miserable Mrs W. W I. I L. L admits that her little year old boy is cute and lovable until she takes him visiting Then she writes ho he throws himself on the floor and makes me rue miserable with his behavior People tell me what they would do with him and I have hae spanked him hard to prove to them that Ido I Ido Ido do spank But he is no better He has a year old brother who Im I'm afraid will imitate him hint What shall shan shallI shanI I do Lets Let's try to imagine what happens when you go visiting The year 3 old ld undoubtedly gets less attention from you and the hostess than does the younger child So he has to snare your notice by being bad his bad his jealousy spurring him on Cant Can't Be Quiet Q et etOr Or t the e hostess may have no playthings playthings playthings play play- things or play place to keep a 3 year-old year happily ente entertained All An that you ask of ot him is 15 th that t he be quiet and act ac nice and other ther artificial requirements which are bou bound d after a few hours to drive the child t to tantrums One thing g is valuable you have proved to your our own satisfaction that spankings do not help You may have my leaflets Wise Management Management Management Manage Manage- ment of the tho Child and Undesirable Punishments for tor a self-addressed self cent 3 stamped envelope sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred of ot f the Your Baby and Mine department of this newspaper Meanwhile note what It Is you are doing and how you are acting that thatis is driving this ordinarily good child to act ugly and mean Dont Don't put him in situations which drive him to temper tantrums And most of all aU dont don't play up to outsiders You cant can't please them no matter what you you do Let t your children be your you chief concern and act as your own conscience dictates