Show I Your Baby and andI andi i I Mine Min e DISTASTE FOR SOME SOME FOODS COMMON CONDITION AMONG CHILDREN Mrs J. J F. F C wrItes I I have havea a bo boy 3 years and S 8 months old who is thirty nine Inches tall and weighs forty pounds Is he under or overweight o lIe He us to eat everything eat but now refuses beans cabbage greens greensand greensand and meat Can you ou eli me some someway someway way to encourage him to eat these things Do you OU think hE be too young youn to send to kindergarten this tall fall ANSWER Thirty four pour Is Is given In my weight chart as the right weIght for tor a child of oC 3 or 4 who Is thirty nine Inches tall Do not force torce any great quantity ot of these foods nor talk about the childs child's to eat them Do Donot Donot not say lay before him My ly son won eat beans or meat because then my son certainly will sot lOt He lb has hasto to live JIve up to his reputation Ask him to please eat at least one spoonful ot of each ot of the foods you have on the table 1 likes I thorn them or not Children are seldom so unreasonable J io 10 refue refu request It if the mothEr makes no fuss about It Then increase In- In crease the amount to two teaspoon teaspoon- n- n Cuts Even Een children should be allowed at al- lowest lowed to leave a food tood which causes thorn them i distaste these distastes ills dis- tastes extend to many foods then the thc should be the above way I very much garten except a private one would accept so flO young oung a child A nursery school be excellent Mrs 1 G. G C. C R. R writes At what age a It if any Is It ad- ad risa Isable a jumper tot for a ba baby y I have heard much discussion pro I and con on this and would like your oUr opinion ANSWER My answer er is very decidedly con I cant Imagine any cIrcumstances cIr dr In which which- It would ever he be advisable to to put a child In a jumper They excite a a. a child and children do not nf need d E ment in In their most moat ot of them need to 10 be protected from just the ordInary excitements Incident to living 4 Mrs Eldred will be glad to send her leaflet The Problem of the Child to any interested mother A silt silt-ad- dressed stamped envelope in in- closed with the request will bring a prompt reply |