Show Yo Your r Baby and Mine Bring your problems to Mrs Eldred in m core of or the Your Baby and rUn Mine department of this newspaper Your questions about diet general care and m management man mn- n of ot children will be on nn promptly ly it if you OU will in in- in close a self self addressed ed cent 3 s stamped envelope with your letter By Dy MYRTLE 1 MEYER ELDRED Questions o of ot the following character charac charac- ter leave me limp because I want to tell the mother so mony many things and md there isn't enough S space ce for lor what whai must essentially be en interpretation of the preschool child Mrs S S. S C. C T T. a My old month Jb b-Jb baby biby has hag fits tits of temper end cries whenever she Is not having in her own way ivay I Which is the best method of at handling to Ignore or or scold her Also she refuses to take milk or on orange juice out of anything but a I bottle As AJr she has rickets and needs I these foods very badly I give i e her the bottle Just what do you think of oC this Obviously Mrs S. S C. C T. T is a newcomer new new- comer corner to this department or she wouldn't ask me what I think of giving giving ing a old month ld child milk end and orange j juice ice by bottle I have never been able to find any valid excuse for this procedure This is jg a mamma made excuse for con continuing the easiest way The child can have sufficient sufficient suf suf- milk in n her solid foods and eventually she will drink milk by cup or gloss glO- when you cease to furnish furnish fur fur- nish her an excuse for demanding ilby it il by bottle boltIc She may have a peeled and sectioned orange to eat cat instead of ot drinking the juice Just so long as s you allow th the child to remain remlin a baby in her eating habits you jou ou canno cannot expect her to rise above other b baby b habits Until the situation is ic explained one cannot make a blanket statement about her to ignore the child Ignoring a e child chUd who vho really needs some som attention is cruel Attending t to her and accompanying such attention atten atten- ton tion by scolding is sill silly Without some idea of oC why the child is acting adin as she he does scolding is likewise o ot of little use and merely makes the chile child nervous ous Perhaps the mother i. i is Li Insisting upon her own wa way too loo 00 much and the child becomes Irritable because o ot of that The general ways of handling children at this particular age ge arc are expounded ex cx- pounded in my leaflets called How to Manage the Child Wisely How to Meet the Childs Child's Opposition anc and 2nd Dir Directing the Childs Child's Curiosity These cover er the ordinary situations in a household with a growing child chile coming into inlo competition with the adults adult who manage her Ask for the thele le leaflets by title and ond a fun full sized self cent 3 stamped with your jour our request for lor them |