Show Your Baby Break Breal Childs Child's Infantile Habits First By Byl MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED It Is warming heart to the paren parent to be conscious of a childs child's progress in intelligence The childs child's re remarks remarks remarks re- re marks the reasonableness of his acts fill her with exultation He seems so smart Yet she herself may be an unconscious stumbling block to the childs child's development Our leaflet on Weaning the B Baby by from Bottle to Cup may maybe maybe maybe be hid had by sending a self ad dressed three-cent three stamped envelope envelope en en- envelope to Myrtle Meyer Eldred your baby and mine department in In care of The Salt Lake Tele Tele- gram when she permits or encourages him to continue habits which he should abandon and outgrow The habit habit- of taking milk by bottle is one of those habits which often come to seem desirable or at al least inoffensive because the child drinks his his' quota of milk without having t to be coaxed Yet by so doing he is being prevented from learning the de desirable desirable desirable de- de habit of swallowing mouthfuls mouthfuls mouthfuls mouth- mouth fuls of fluid instead of drops He Heis Heis Heis is being prevented from acquiring the habit of going to sleep without the soothing nipple in his mouth Even if we condone this one baby habit we cant can't expect consistent development so long as the child indulges In It A baby may form the habit of sleeping with a toy animal beside him Then he goes goes' visiting the the toy is left behind and he sleeps without it But once back hick hickin in familiar surroundings the lure of the old habit reasserts itself This is somewhat the same mechanism mechanism mechanism mecha mecha- which exerts an influence to keep all kinds of baby habits active ac ac active ac- ac tive when one of them is allowed to go go undisturbed The more advanced advanced advanced ad ad- habits of toilet control or of independent play cannot be well established so long as the child indulges in one habit so completely allied with his baby behavior asIs as asis asis is drinking milk by bottle The parent who is eager to teach her tier child more adult habits must be prepared to break off every kind of behavior which ties him to in in- in fancy |