Show PERMIT CHILD TO USE POWER IN SMALL WAY TO MEET REBELLIONS Inane Craving to Show Himself Himself Him Him- self Human Being Must Have Encouragement By MYRTLE MEYER 1 ELDRED Soon the child will want to spend all of his time in outdoor activities He can be kept c contented con con- n. n tented at home if the mother anticipates an an- his interests Write for Mrs Eldred's special leaflet Homemade Backyard Equip Equip- ment Remember to a self addressed 3 stam stamped d envelope en en- clope with your request The headiness and cockiness which results from a little power is a very real hal thing child chUd displays It during durin his second and third year when he discovers for the first time that he can rebel successfully against some dominating adult Mothers are never prepared for the rebellion The docile docHe child quite by accident refuses to eat refuses the call to come in wont won't use the toilet insists upon standing up in bed de mands to have another piece and the mother Is momentarily helpless s. s She is sure that it if she gives him his way lets him know that he can be boss all dIscipline will be lost for or- or ever Her efforts to break the chUd's childs will and enforce her own arc most often lamentably futile Maternal Maternal Ma- Ma explosions stinging slaps and more undignified led punishments are less annoying to the child than his loss of power The answer is to increase his sense of power in legitimate wa ways s 's since it itis itis is necessary to his healthy growth His innate craving to show himself a human being and a personality must have encouragement can chart this power Into harmless channels He must go to tobed tobed bed but he may choose the way in which he wishes to go o to bed whether er Cr with or without lights with toys carried up or walking by himself He must be breakfast but he may do this himself if he can and he may choose the suit he will wear he may feed himself He must have an hours hour's airing morning and afternoon after arter noon but It may be on the porch in inthe the yard walking with mother or riding in his wagon In a word there are things to fo which for the sake of the childs child's health and the household routine he must conform as a socIable being and anda a member ot of the family There are areman man many many ways was of doing these necessary things which he may choos choose for himself thus giving his sense of power his desire to choose conduct for himself some some wholesome some exercise The child chUd who has a loose rein and much opportunity to choose his own lines of conduct drives more happily than the child whose mother is so fearful arul of her own ability to manage him so jealous of her own prerogatives that she can never relinquish re re- 1 linquish qU even cn in trivIal matters the reins rems of her authority |