Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-07-28 | Page 14 | Your Baby

Your our Baby Dont Don't Burden Child Chile With j Responsibility L 1 By Dy MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Not one of us a. a as parent parents but t tern tend nd to carry carry to extremes any policy or attitude attitude which we consider to be a good one Thus the parent who believes firmly in the childs child's nee need to develop to-develop develop Independence may leave her children entirely to their own devices devices r or c continually in the care of servants in order to foster this characteristic Perhaps the children do become t o I relIant elt-relIant but may as easily become jittery and uncertain of c themselves they may be made Irrl- Irrl vi table and high strung simply be- be xi of cause they are forced to carry Our leaflet Teaching the Child ChUd Independence may flay be had by sending a three-cent three stamped self addressed eh- eh velpe with your letter to Mrs Eldred of ot the your baby and mine department in care of ot The Salt Lake Telegram more snore responsibility than they are able to bear They dont don't always J J. know what to do and do-and and need to be told Their Judgment Isn't de developed developed devel- devel vel- vel sufficiently so that they can s decIde without mistakes an anthey and they are angered and irritated by b being made to suffer the results of their errors Children get protection from servants servants servants ser- ser but not counsel and advice and criticism If they do the child hf Id can take it or leave it for these are not the bosses boSJe he respects The parent cannot slough off her own responsibility to guide and advise and criticise and then make half half- grown children suffer the penalties of their errors of judgment If they were competent to do this this this- they wouldn't need parents Then there are parents parent who lean heavily in the opposite dir direction They expect nothing of ot their chUU chil chU- U dren They make all aU the plans map map out their conduct and see ee only that the children heed their dictates dic- dic tates tales If 4 Children do not profit prom from sucha such a o sided one policy They develop I an increasing sense sene of their own I helplessness and incompetence They look more and more to the par- par S. S ent nt for advice and guidance They S. S become clinging vines with no abilI abilIty abil- abil I Ity to become Independent simply because their shoots have all been 4 trained to cling cUng We should be wary of any deci- deci S I elon alon to throw all responsibility upon pon children and equally of the tendency to assume all aU of I it for them