Show Your Baby and Mi Mine ne neB B By MYRTLE l MEYER n ELDRED I want my son to stand up for himself but not to pick fights tights writes Mrs F. F H. H How shall I Irain train rain him before belore school days J arrive arrive ar ar- ar- ar rive nc 1 Try Tr first to understand the attitudes attitudes atti- atti tudes udes tudes of at small children toward each other Notice how bow they treat each other as inanimate objects and hit and kick or run them down In play playas as if it the attacked child lacked all feeling The Tho year old who gives his boon companion a kick or slap is not necessarily a mean child but just one who hasn't learned social be- be havior baylor or recognized that the feelIngs feel feel- ings of oC the other child have to be respected Experimental Bites Bite He Ha learns all of these theBe things by bye e experimenting and seeing what hap hap- pens pen He takes an experimental bite of ot a companions companion's arm and the out outraged ged one retaliates retaliate In kind or gives him a a. bang Then the mother steps In and says say Now boys that isn't the way to play Tell Jimm Jimmy you are sorry and wont won't do it again Tears are ar dried and peace prevails If It Jimmy ge gets bitten again the conciliatory mother has but one course to follow and that is to send the tho biting child upstairs to play alono alone until he can play nicely Most children understand the excitement ex cx- which causes children to slap and hit each other In sheer joy at being together The They seldom re resent ent such acts Let Lethe the he mother try to view them as placidly If she makes it a point to encourage children of ot like ages to play together if It she shows disapproval disapproval dis dis- dis approval al of ot painful acts and acts and does not use painful punishments punishment herself herself her her- s self as a means of showing her angry emotion then emotion then she ahe can quite safely let the average child chUd settle his own differences with his com corn Our leaflet Childrens Quarrels will amplify this discussion and may maybe maybe maybe be had for a self addressed and 3 stamped cent envelope sent to Myrtyl Myrtyl Myr- Myr tyl lyl Meyer Eldred of at the Your Bab Baby and Mine department of this newspaper news paper |