| Show YOUR BABY AND MINE Parents Must Insist on Good Posture re J By Myrtle I Me er Ie fr Kl Eldred Y Youve You've R all II known children who from rom childhood have seemed to slump and slouch RI as a if their muscles were made of water No Noma ma matter Lter what t the mother did or how hot often she he exhorted the child to walk like a soldier and pullback pull pullback i back his is sh shoulders h he continued I to han hang his head and let hi his shoulders slump These are the adults whose hacks backs bow a at l the shoulder houlder or rib nb line This arch remains remain no matter how badly they would like to pull themselves erect The child with a poor posture ture may need more U. U than n parental pleas plea tl to help him to stand u up P stra straight hl These children need medical examinations to determine determine deter deter- I mine what is causing the muscles muscles mus mus- cJe cles to be so 10 wea weak and the bones bone to bow Sometimes a lon long ill illness illness m- m ness nes which leaves th the child physically physically phys phys- weak may lead to misshapen misshapen misshapen mis- mis backbones backbone if the child I carries carrie books book persistently on one hip or sits in a distorted i position in hi his classroom seat in order to get the best li light ht on his hi hisK K i. work ork Th These se spinal distortions distortion may mRY harden into permanent spinal bowing or lateral curvatures curva curva- ture tures flay a aHe He Re Emotional If lC there is no obvious physical rea reason on for th the way the child slumps then some orne study should be he made of the home hunie environ environ- ment This Thi refusal to look the in the eye thi this literal timidity which keeps the childs child's head Sowed bowed and his shoulders slumped may be indicative of an emotional situation I Such a t child may have sagging spirits which go o with his sa sagging gin j shoulders hould because he is unhappy in his home with playmates or just feels feel brow-beaten brow by society in general He hasn't the courage to face fac up I Exercise is not nol the one answer I to such a R. situation Jn In fact it lIa may be te no answer a at AI I all as children cannot he be Inter estert in mechanical I exercises a and nd being driven to them may mayy increase e their sense of unfitness or timid timid- ity If It UI the slumping is a ft symptom only of sagging sag spirits then the I who whole It en 11 environment needs need to oe ue examined and changed chang Then the posture will take care of itself Our leaflet No o 48 Physical H of the School Child nH may Y be hp had by sending a S stamped self addressed envelope envelope enve enve- I lope with your request to Myrtle 1 Meyer Eldred in care of this new newspaper p per |
