Show OUR BABY AND MINE Avoid Everyone's H Help lp When See Seeking ng Baby Aid By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED M Mothers who ask lUk questions of the column often relate in addition addition addition ad ad- what someone has told them In an enormously large percentage of cases these tidbits tidbits tidbits tid tid- tid- tid bits of advice are faulty It would see seem from the evidence that the more Illogical the idea the more persistently it is believed believed believed be be- and passed on to others A fine finc example of this was given by Mrs 1 S. S B. B who wanted to wean her child from bottle to cup in the summer and was told that she mustn't do this everyone everyone every every- one said so Everyone didn't seem to know why but they were confirmed in their belief that it mustn't be done Probably what they had in mind was that a nursing baby had best not be changed to cows cow's milk during the heat of the summer summer summer sum sum- mer when any drastic change in diet is undesirable But to relate this warning to cup feeding feed feed- ing which lag which is the same milk given by a different utensil utensil- merely illustrates how uncritically uncritically uncritically cally people pass PlUS on advice This same mother having had the courage e to flout such advice advice advice ad ad- vice found that her boy of 14 months was very easy to wean to a cup He had never eaten cereal she writes but I tried a number of kinds and finally found one he liked It was like turning the key hey of a door He started to eat all kinds of foods that weren't strained and now he no longer has diarrhea which he had from too much fruit and vegetables and only has two movements a da day He hasn't had a bottle for a week and gets his glass of milk every night If he makes a fuss fussI I say firmly Go to sleep and he does to my amazement It relieved me to be t ld that there is no inherited bed wetting All my husbands husband's family in including including including in- in myself proclaim that they were bed and their father said that he was Ill I'll n never ver let my boy hear that for now I think they all adopted it because they thought they should Thank you for your nice letter Jetter and the picture of the adorable boy Its It's too early to worry about bed wetting wetting- anyway but it is well to get a clear idea of what the boy can do when he arrives at the age for control and not handicap him by expecting expecting expecting expect expect- ing him to follow these family patterns The things people tell you are mostly negativistic and pessi pessi- It is the expectation of success which impresses the child favorably and not an at attitude attitude attitude at- at which looks for the worst and usually gets it Our leaflet No 58 Bed Wetting Netting may be had by sending sending send send- ing a stamped self addressed envelope with your request to Myrtle Meyer Eldred in care of Telegram Home Service Bureau |