Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-23 | Page 12 | Your Baby

I I Your Baby aly When Child Passes One Stage In Another Development Equally Trying Lies Ahead B By MYRTLE MEYER E ELDRED DRED Our free leaflet on Wetting Bed may offer some some other helpful suggestions for dealing with this habit It may be had by sending a cent 3 stamped self-addressed self envelope with your letter to Mrs Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department in care care of this news news- u L paper When a mother has no ready remedy for problems if she has hashe the he patience to let things work themselves out shell she'll find the thee method effective The problems of today oday have a way of fading away only to be replaced by different perplexities immediately significant signIficant significant cant of ot the childs child's advancing age Mrs E E. S. S C C. writes While I have gotten pretty well past worrying about my boys' boys physical well being now I am worrying about their mental and character growth But dont don't get the idea that hat I do nothing but worry I 1 Ilore Iove love lore ove and enjoy them too But I dont don't seem to have enough answers answers answers an an- that's where your department department department depart depart- ment comes In so handy and I thank you for it By the way I 1 have found that letting them alone works very well The older boy would not eat eggs for a while For about six be months I 1 gave him no eggs except in custard or Ice cream and suddenly he started liking them again Im beginning to win the same battle with vegetables They would confine themselves to one vegetable or another and accept no other I 1 got so I offered none else First thing they asked for fora a piece of raw celery then some lettuce now a little squash or okra So that's straightening it itself itself it- it self outI outI out outI I worked with wetting bed-wetting too Last winter the older boy started started start start- ed fd that all over again I 1 tried every stunt I could think of to tomake tomake tomake make him want to have a dry bed In practically no time Ume after I had decided not to care he stopped If you had been discouraged when no improvement appeared in ina a week or two or or three you wouldn't have been so successful Changes in behavior may seem sudden to the parent which have been coming on or on-or or going off oft for fora a long time It is surprising how problems will evaporate If a parent parent parent par par- ent can do nothing convincingly It Is 11 a parent parents natural tendency to gaze at comment upon worry over and punish any behavior which she dislikes which keeps it active