Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-01-24 | Page 8 | Your Baby and Mine

YOUR BABY AND MINE Freedom Is Essential to to Development By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED If the baby's body is to grow healthy and strong it should have opportunities to exercise its Its' natural abilities Most mothers mothers moth moth- ers err subscribe to that without t putting it into those words Th They y know that when the baby is able to sit up they are eager to give him that privilege When tile the child can creep he wants to practice his skill o on the floor where he has hM scope to stretch himself When a a. child is Is' Isable able to walk he cannot be satisfied walking wanting on a soft mattress or C even eve V C fl n non on the circumscribed square o of his pI playpen good as that Is Some of th this l seems so elementary elementary elementary elemen elemen- tary and obvious that it is hardly worth tal talking ing aboul about But Buta a parent gets into patterns of ot behavior which she finds hard to shake She is b busy sy and it is easier to keep the child penned up tip ALL the time than to give him lm periods of freedom to creep and walk It is less less' annoying to keep a child in his high chair in the kitchen than allow him to sit in iri front of a cupboard or ora ora ora a drawer and mess in the articles he finds there Yet freedom to move about to handle to run run to Creep creep are es essential essential es- es to to the childs child's whole de de- de- de One au authority t tho h o r I t y Smiley Blanton that lack of ot the opportunity ty to creep is Ls r responsible for speech I s. s This answers t the c question of of Steady Reader who wants ants to know the disadvantages of keepIng keepIng keeping keep keep- ing a month 14 old month old baby in his his' crib all day He is walking His mother has three three other other childre children chil chil- dren The disadvantages would be loss of opportunity to practice walking and also a uninspiring environment the same lame day and night Put Put the older children to work watching watching watch watch- ing lug the baby Our leaflet No 40 How the Child Develops may be had by y sending lending a stamped s self addressed envelope with your reque request t to o Myrtle Meyer Eldred in c care re of the Salt Lake Telegram Home Service Bureau It 4