Show Wobbly V Parents Explains Unruly and Perplexed Children NEW YORK March 6 NEA- NEA Are you ou a wobbly parent It If so dont don't wonder why you have unruly children says Henry w V. Thurston prominent educator and former president of the Child Welfare League of America A wobbly parent he explains in an an article In Children Is 18 one who forbids the baby to pull the books ort off the shelf at one time and later particularly if a caller is present says Bobby is so mis when he does docs so LEARNS SLOWLY S A baby he goes on can learn nh 1 1 h hA fin an not 4 1 do bv k v. v n. n u experimenting In his own way he finds out that a table leg bumps hIm when he runs Into It that pins prick and nd dogs resent too rough handling lI HO quickly understands things that are consistent rhe childs child's problem Is the Inconsistent wobbly adult human hum lD lie He never knows when this human Is gOing to smile and when he may spank A child that can can deal with a grown n person upon whose behavior he can depend Is fortunate The place to convince the baby he hiss has not a for tor a parent parentis is in the cradle Thurston says Most loat babies cry he points out because without realizing they do doso doso so parents encourage them to After a baby has cried two or three minutes on the first night he heIs heis Is left alone his mother goes to I him and stays until he goes goeR to sleep The next night she doesn't go In three minutes but waits walts five Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps the father ather does duty the third night lie He cant can't stand It so he goes In and keeps the baby company tinUi tin Un- Ui he sleeps The next night they agree the baby must go to sleep leep by himself They sti k it out fifteen mInutes then both soothe him CRYING BEST POLICY I ISmall Small wonder the baby thinks to to Just himself what sort of oC parents parents par par- did I 1 draw Sometimes they come in five sometimes ten and ands s sometimes fifteen minutes Ills Henry W. W I con slon l is IR that that hi his salvation lies In crying until they come Wobbly parents he concludes can work a good healthy baby up 10 twenty thirty and forty minutes of crying before beCore he fall falls aSleep from ph physical exhaustion |