Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-09-08 | Page 13 | The Family Scrapbook

The ie Family y Scrapbook Hes just a stubborn child How easy it is to label a youngster and how much more difficult to understand what it itis itis itis is that makes him act in the way we call caU stubborn Somehow Somehow Somehow Some Some- how or other if we can apply the label we feel teel that we have achieved something and that all that is necessary from then on onis onis onis is to find the proper form of discipline Stubbornness comes from any number of oC causes and is usually a childs child's way of protecting protecting protecting pro pro- himself I remember that one boy when he was eight was called stubborn by a recreation leader because he wouldn't play the game she had scheduled for or his group Actually he wouldn't try because the games were new and he feared he would fail He needed help to face such situations but not the kind of insistence on obedience that the leader showed Many stubborn children are protecting themselves against too many demands on the part of parents or other adults Do this Dont do that Come here at once these once these and similar similar similar simi simi- lar blunt commands after a awhile awhile awhile while will build up resistance in any child that has spunk It will pay then to stop using the word stubborn and try to find out why the youngster Is resistant One can be much more intelligent in dealing with him if his reasons are understood