Show YOUR BABY AND MINE Dont Don't Pass On Your You r Own Fears Its s Unwholesome for Children By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED There is hardly a human being being being be be- ing alive who has not in the years gone through some frightful fright fright- ful and frightening experience But no one can go through the rest of life living and reliving these experiences It is also true that when our nerves have followed through the complete experience there are fewer aftereffects than when the emotion was only half experienced It is the person who almost gets run over who almost falls down the stairs who feels reels the shock most acutely Unless there arc are lingering lingering lingering linger linger- ing wounds the person can get over an experience that was completed even though a disturbing disturbing disturbing dis dis- dis- dis one Your friend saw her house burn down and she was terrified terrified terrified terri terri- fied at seeing her husband go goback goback goback back into the flames but re returned returned returned re- re turned unharmed She has suffered suffered suf suf- I the full value of her emotional shock and now should be willing and able to forget it To bring up her children with such an unwholesome dread of fire instead of giving them an example of both courage and caution can only make all of them neurotics For whatever reason could a thinking right-thinking adult condone the use of alcoholic beverage for a baby No matter if beer is nourishing so is milk and it is the natural food of all aU babies human or animal Grandmother Grandmother Grandmother Grand Grand- mother why dont don't you voice your strong distaste for this practice of your law in-law One of my readers felt that her experience with her school schoolchild schoolchild schoolchild child was similar to one described described described de de- de- de scribed in this column My child would come home from school crying every every day she writes We Ve thought he was nearsighted and had his vision tested He was but the oculist thought he saw signs of thyroid deficiency We Ve had a basal metabolism made and he ha was deficient |