Show By Display i I f y f Of Emo Emotion ion I Your Baby By Byl MYRTLE MEYER lElER ELDRED You may have the free leaflet Temper Tantrums by sending In In your request with a cent 3 stamped self-addressed self envelope to Mrs Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department in care of The Salt Lake Telegram What makes children fall faU into rages One may well ask for it demands careful analysis of the childs child's s treatment and environment In order to discover why he becomes becomes becomes be be- comes so chaotic in his emotions that he literally doesn't know what he is doing t It It is too late to do much when a 8 child is in a 8 temper Anything we do then will only whip up his rage to higher levels Better ignore him until he is over it Then is the time to ask yourself what is wrong Say to yourself What amI am amI amI I doing that could bear correction or improvement We know that if we pinion the tiny baby's arms or legs he cries out in anger This anger at frustration frustration frustration frus frus- of movement is constant throughout childhood That alone accounts for much of ot the anger young children display We thwart their movements we force them f to submit to us we snatch away the object they have picked up to examine we wont won't let them go go outdoors or ride a in the house Frustration If this goeSon goes goeson goeson on long enough and the child feels strongly enough rage is the result result re re- sult suIt a 8 mad head-bumping head foot- foot Ii kicking exhibition of temper f- f A A. child grows angry when he cant can't fulfill his own plans He attempts to string two c cars rs to together together together to- to gether and the knot of the cord wont won't hold He catches the wheel of a kiddy car on the leg of a I chair and cant can't free it A surplus of these failures and he is ready to scream in a frenzy of disappointment disappointment disappointment and irritation When the child is over by play or visiting or when his parents his companions or his play demand more of him than he heis heis heis is able to give any slight happening happening happening happen happen- ing may push him into a temper tantrum It is a way of letting off emotional steam and though it exhausts him it calms him When the runabout is having temper tantrums often or school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children are given to outbursts of incoherent rage dont don't fall into the temptation of accusing the child of having inherited the disposition of some ancestor Look for the situations right in inthe inthe inthe the home or on the playground which are driving the child into a arage arage arage rage because of his own feelings of helplessness and failure |