Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-03-05 | Page 25 | Try a Whistle for Calling Your Children

t Try a Whistle for lor Calling CaIling Your Children By y MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Even a mother gets tired of ot hearing her own voice pleading scolding warning She wishes there were fewer emergencies in the day when she shead had ad to use It For a mother who iho who overmuch discovers what she says has a diminishing diminishing diminishing diminish diminish- ing influence Her words fallon fall fallon fallon on deaf deat ears I J There Ther is a way In which she he can save her voice and incidentally inci- inci dentally the wear and tear on her good disposition and that is isby isby by Iby use of a whistle as a signal ip to her children Bit It is s so ed much easier to conVince convince con- con Vince a child of ot the fun of heedIng heeding heed- heed Ing mg the sound of at the whistle than it Is to get him to run home when hen mother calls The effort a mother makes to send her voice olee to some distance gives it ita a Duality that puts up a a. childs child's back baek He doesn't want to heed that urgent demand He feels Independent when he Ignores it Hes He's No Sissy I He wants to show the other kids that he doesn't have to run like Eke a baby Just because his mother Is calling him That at at- creeps creep very quickly Into a mother boy-mother relationship Any boy old enough to play away from home gets to feeling his masculine oats and heeding his mother Is a a. form of ot sissified behavior which he considers tobe to tobe tobe be a reflection upon him But a whistle That's differ differ- ent It is entirely impersonal Even adults get up when the alarm clock rings not because anyone tells them they must but because the sound signifies the passing of ot time and they know what they must do when it is time to do It ft Little boys react the same Two blasts on the whistle signify signify sig sig- that it Is time for dinner or lunch or whatever signal has been decided upon Itis It is like a code which the child knows how to read No one else need be bein bein bein in on It He heeds it because the family has decided upon this code and he is a member of the family and will wiIl respect it Each Has Own Tone Every household h ha his s a whistle with a distinctive tone so that no child will run home until he hears his own The very habit of heeding this impersonal signal is a good one oneto oneto oneto to establish The child feels no resentment against a whistle it ft merely separates the family events in which he has a a. personal personal personal per per- part Children come to meals more nimbly when a bell rings than when the mother calls One cant can't talk back to an alarm clock a whistle or a bell One can argue with ones one's mother The household will wiIl run more smoothly the children obey more graciously when these impersonal impersonal impersonal imper imper- signals are put into force