Show YOUR BABY AND MINE Unusual Evening May Divert Sleep By MEYER ELDR ELDRED ED f J 1 By Y MYRTLE f It If t is i's is isto to be expected that bee between be be- be- be tween the e childs child's and month or thereabouts si he willbe willbe will willbe be th the victim of disturbed sleep When When he cries in the night just justa a soothing Soo hand and voice voke and anda inda a suggestion to go night night or whatever w term speeds him toward slumber is enough to settle him down in again One Ope of the points points' to be remembered remembered re- re is that day or or night even a a slight change in th the ordinary ordinary nary routine of events leading up to bed may put the child off One mother noticed that her child missed his afternoon nap once or orvice twice vice during the week She was always able to relate his behavior to some unusual event happening just at bed bed- time The ringing of the telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone or doorbell the call of one of the other children orsome or orsome or orsome some unusual fracas out of out out-of- doors would stiffen his re resistance re- re stance toward lying down If he cried persistently for 10 or more minutes the mother would go in raise the window shades open the door and give the child some toy so that he could play in b bed d. d This is one explanation why mothers have ave difficulty getting children of this age to go to sleep when they have company or are hurrying to some noontime noontime noontime noon noon- time function The very hurry the tension in the air the mothers mother's failure to put the child to to bed in a leisurely manner with full attention n to to each detail detail de de- tail taU is accountable for his failure failure failure fail fail- ure to sleep It is useless to let a child scream himself hoarse when he shows this unwillingness to sleep Nothing is gained His desire to sleep is not improved as it might be if he were were taken up soothed and then a short time later lafer pu put through the Ute identical identical identical iden iden- routine of going to bed again This time it might take lake Our leaflet No 3 38 Sleeping leeping Habits may be had by sending a stamped self-addressed self envelope envelope en en- with your request to Myrtle Meyer eyer Eldred in care of the Salt Lake Telegram Home Service bureau |