Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-05-30 | Page 12 | Don't Let Tot Eat Sand

Dont Don't Let Tot Eat Sand SandBy By MYRTLE MEYER l ELDRED The The mother can hardly wait for it ito to o be time for the baby to be put putout putout out ut in the bright sunshine to play In n his Not a child but enjoys enjoys' molding the wet sand into pointed hills and arid wavering castle walls Above all does he love to see ee the sand sift through a wire Your Baby sieve endlessly amused as he shakes Jt It t back and forth and watches it stream tream forth But lt playing with sand is not all that bat small children like to do with it Some of them quite a number in n fact have no at all allo to o stuffing handfuls into their mouths and swallowing it Those Dimensions for the sand box are listed in Mrs Eldr Eldred's ds d's leaflet leaflet leaflet leaf leaf- let Backyard Play Equipment Equipment Equip Equip- ment copy of which you may have for a self-addressed self three- three cent stamp envelope sent with your request for the leaflet by byname byname byname name to Mrs Eldred in care of The Salt Lake Telegram of f us who shudder at occasional grains of sand in our asparagus cannot annot imagine how they can manage manage manage man man- age to swallow it But they can I Id and d do I The time to nip this little habit habits is s right in the beginning Watch the he small baby who goes out to play and note whether hands laden with sand find their way to his mouth If they do rush out and put them down We dont don't put sand in our mouths we we say conversationally conversationally con con- just pat it or sift it it see at which we again show him just what is done with sand Then watch again and if he fails to imitate imitate imi- imi tate ate us we rush out again brush brushoff brushoff brushoff off the clinging sand and carry him lim into the house Dickie cant can't enjoy the sand unil until un- un un-I un til il he has learned how to play with it 11 t we say Of course we may give jive him another chance but we hastily remove him from the sand- sand pile ile and bring him In every time that hat he forgets what we have told hIm Mm The joy of playing in the sane sand sandis Is so superior to any joys he mIght experience from eating it that it should not take but one or two experiences experiences ex ex- of this kind to convince him that if he wants to be outdoors wants to fill his pail with a good- good sized wants to build anc and mold and dig he has to keep sane sand away from his mouth He will wil learn