Salt Lake Telegram | 1947-07-03 | Page 4 | Your Baby and Mine

YOUR BABY AND MINE Whacking Child Wont Won't Help By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED The most effective method of punishing children for their de deliberate deliberate deliberate de- de liberate offenses is to deny them privileges or to isolate them from their parents sisters and brothers broth broth- ers or friends The privilege may be a story to which they are devoted a visit to friends a movie each week a radio serial they enjoy To deprive them of it is mean mean- The isolation should be immediate but not long Punishment that goes on too long loses its effectiveness If It the child makes mistakes and breaks some cherished object object ob ob- tears his clothes gets I muddy spills water eats too many sweets he doesn't need punishment He needs an explanation We all make mistakes and no one whacks us for them Give the child a break too In fact spanking may be the easiest thing a parent does be because because because be- be cause it relieves her own ten ten- It may not be the effective punishment bec because use of that Children get used to spankings and feel rather proud that they can stand them That isn't the Idea in punishment It is to help the child see that his conduct has been wrong and that he is to improve improve improve im im- im- im prove it Hell He'll get a chance to think that over calmly while he sits alone in his room Hell He'll wonder if it is worth the price if the deprivations really deprive him of pleasures he enjoys Our leaflet No 74 Desirable Punishments may be had by sending a stamped self-addressed self envelope with your request to Myrtle Meyer Eldred in care of The Salt Lake Telegram