Show YOUR BABY AND MINE Prevention Proves Better Than Punishing By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Many Marcy a child accepts the punishment punishment punishment pun pun- he gets because he has already enjoyed the satisfaction of doing as he pleased This worried father and mother moth moth- er write We Ve have a year old who is the middle of three girls School lets out at 3 15 p p. p m. m but she never gets home until 5 or 6 o'clock just goes from place to place and we never know where she is unless we go hunting for her Why cant can't she come home homelike homelike like other children do The older older older old old- er girl 7 years is always home and is fair and honest This girl takes money behind our back and buys gum candy and ico ice cream We have plenty of this at home Why take money without without without with with- out asking We have done everything t td to punish her but nothing helps So far you have done nothing to change the situation which inspires the misbehavior You have overlooked the necessity this child feels to stand out in the family She cant can't be the oldest girl with her prestige as first born nor the youngest who is the petted baby haby but she can be the girl in m the family who never ne comes home after school or who vho takes money without asking When children are arc driven to such extremes to be different it is 18 because parents fail fall to give them opportunities to be significant significant signi signi- personalities t Play up this girls girl's talents and skills kills Do not compare her with the other children children children chil chil- dren think of her as a separate personality and one who ho wants very much to be different from the sister so near her in m age Meanwhile go to school each day taking the baby for a walk Want and bring her straight home reminding her that as soon as she can show sho you that she w will 11 come home by herself you'll be glad to give her the Give her a suitable sum of money each week which is hers her hersto herto to spend as she pleases She may feel she needs the bolstering that treating gives and since she spends money anyway give her her own and let her develop the ability to spend it wisely widely Keep your own pocketbook where it I wont v be a temptation to her Our leaflet No 76 Allowances for Children may be bc had by sending a stamped self ad dressed envelope with this re request request request re- re quest to Myrtle Meyer Eldred In intaro taro care of the Salt Lake Telegram |