Show Myrtle Meyer Eld Eldred red Your Baby Rest Period ergo Good Even If Sleepless Any Any reader interested may obtain my free leaflet Hours of Sleep for the usual three-cent three stamped self-addressed self envelope sent In with a request to Mrs Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department department department depart depart- ment in care of this newspaper We Ve can control a childs child's sleep only indirectly It is in the nature nature nature na na- ture of well children to sleep When they do not it is chiefly because their food is not ample or satisfying or we have failed to set the stage for sleep This is done by putting them to bed every day at the same time and usually in the same same place place so that they associate the hour and the place with closing of eyes The tiny baby snoozes after every mea meal By the third or fourth month he is taking only two regular naps a day one in inthe inthe inthe the middle of the morning and the other after the 2 p. p m m m. f feeding feed feed- edin ed- ed in ing When meals are changed to three a day usually after the first birthday if not before the baby takes his daytime sleep in one long nap after the noon mea meal All thi this time he is presumably presumably presumably ably going to bed at six to seven After his third or fourth birthday birthday birthday birth birth- day it differs with different children children he he may decide he cannot cannot cannot can can- not nap at all When put to bed he lies there singing or yelling or tearing the bed apart or in investigating investigating investigating in- in the dresser drawers doing everything but sleeping Change his nap to o a rest period Tell him to td take a Joy boy or a book and stay in his room for an hour with with the door opened or cl closed sed sedas as he pleases but stay there he must It is quite true that children outgrow the ability to sleep and though we may force them to stay in their rooms until they do do go to sleep we may find that this prevents the them going to sleep at the proper time tune at night So nothing at all is gained by it But one rest period in the middle middle middle mid mid- dle of the day and short rest periods before each meal work wonders wonders' for tempers and appe appe- |