Show Your Baby Let the Child W Work WorkOut orl Out S His Problems By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Our free leaflet Care During the Summer is a seasonal leaflet leaflet leaflet leaf leaf- let to have on hand You may have it if you will send your request to me In care of The Salt Lake Telegram It is a good general policy to let our children try to work out social situations by themselves But when we realIze realize realize real real- ize the child is failing it is time timeto timeto timeto to step in and help if we can Several weeks ago writes A Mother we moved taking my year old girl from the school to which she had g gene ne since kin km- She seems quite unhappy unhappy unhappy un un- un- un happy in her new school and anti says the girls in her room wont won't play with her at recess time I thought that in time this situation would right itself but every very morning she dislikes to start to school she is getting getting getting get get- ting worse and worse I talked with her teacher who says sh she is getting along splendidly with her work But if she is unhappy I feel something should be done about ItI ItI itI it I have been wondering if it would be advisable to get the names of four or five girls in her room and have a little party for them Or would you suggest that I take it up with the teacher teach teach- er first This situation always reminds me of a book I read many years ago A person got on a train in which there were a number of ot unrelated and disunited persons As soon as this new arrival stepped in the whole earful of passengers immediately became united in their unfriendliness to her She was on the outside They by the mere fact of having been there first were on the in in- in side This seemed to me a most acute observation of a common phe phe- Those children really have nothing against your daugh daugh- ter But they can lord it over her they can ignore her because she is the new element They feel superior merely because they have this petty power to put her in her place Id I'd choose one girl at a time and invite her to lunch Then invite another girl and thus one oneat oneat oneat at a time allow each to become friendly with your daughter ir in hf inthe the intimacy of her own home and without familiar girls about Then when she knows each one separately it will vill be time enough to invite th them m all to together together together to- to gether to a a Saturday party Just ask them to come to a lunch on week days which will make the affair short pleasant and mal |