Show f YOUR BABY AND MINE J Children Have Instinctive I iJ l Fear of oJ Loud Noises es By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Mrs Mrs A. A J. J wonders what c causes her daughter to be afraid of noise She writes My little girl is 2 y years ars old She is afraid of every sound She was 8 months old when we we got our vacuum cleaner and she Cried so so hard that I had to take herto her herto herto to my mothers mother's while I Idid did the cleaning It was the same with the electric sewing machine Last week when I took her along t to the clinic with with the the baby 8 she e was VIM frightened w when cn the nurse pulled down the shade hade and shook out the oil oU cloth cover for the the table She would not go goon on on the scales because of this though she always has She may have a more acute sense of hearing than some Bome chili chil- chil i dren She may have ave been frightened frightened fright fright- ened at the doctors doctor's sometime in the past and now each visit recalls her early fright and she reacts against being there Many children are fearful of new situations Make ah an an effort when she Is Js isto to go to some new new- place to liter literally literally lit lit- er ly lydra dra draw a picture of it including in in- eluding eluding- all the possible noises she will wm hear Encourage her to imitate noises or br to make loud Joud ones with toys To play at being at-being being th thunder jr or r u fast train or an airplane 1 is caI calculated ula a to extract extract extract ex ex- tract all fear from the noises they they make She cant can't help sizing when she makes A loud noise herself that It Is is' without harm to anyone Make it a a point point- not to men mention tion lion to h her heror r or to others ther t that at Bh she is fearful e of ot noises Our leaflet No 60 Common Childhood Fears carS maY may b be had by Sy bys by's s sending n a al stamped stamp ed d self self- tt- tt addressed envelope with your jour tto Myrtle M Meyer in care of The Salt k Lake Tele el gram grain H Horne Home m Se e |