Show Your Baby and Mine By MYRTLE l ELDRED By MYRTLE MEYER 2 ELDRED Is your child an unmanageable able Tact patience and understandIng understanding understanding under under- standing will vill change the situa situa- tion Send for Mrs Eldred's leaflet leaflet leaf leal let How to Manage the Child Wisely inclosing a self sell addressed addressed ad ad- dressed three-cent three stamped envelope envelope en en- with your our request in care of or this newspaper The difficulty of obtaining the cooperation cooperation cooperation coop coop- of older children in the thc work of ot the household is partly due to individual individual individual in in- differences All married women women wo woo wo- wo men do not have the same zest for i housekeeping Some of them turn this work over to servants and earn the money by doing office work vo k Other married women refuse to have nave servants servants ser sere be because ause they so thoroughly enjoy enjoy enjoy en en- joy their home duties We must expect that there will be exactly those differences displayed by the growing child Despite them it t is necessary that children childre accept housework as part of their responsibilities as members of the family It might be better in view of or such facts to o admit to to children honestly that housework is greater drudgery t to some than others But to enjoy ordeny orderly or or- deny derly homes and well cooked meals we must pay for it in labor The s satisfaction satisfaction satis satis- faction of doing cheerfully what we should do is greater if it we are Ire conquering conquering con con- a a. a natural distaste for tor t the job Mrs M. M D. D wishes that I would suggest suggest sug sug- gest ways to make children of 13 to 17 more interested in housework She writes I I have been fortunate in receiving receiving re re- re- re cooperation from my my youngsters youngsters young young- all along the line until they entered entered en en- junior high school What has caused this sudden change I am at a loss to understand One of your recent articles on home duties for the child brought some slight relief in my own household but I would like a discussion dis dis- dis- dis of the older child chUd and would be thankful for any aid You are dealing with children hildren at atthe atthe atthe the most difficult and inexplicable period of or their development cence They are arc less energetic phys- phys cally They are Ire inclined to be resentful resent resent- ful ul of almost anything which is suggested suggested sug- sug ested or initiated by the parent They are alive to their social obligations outside the home and more in intense intensely interested in every activity of or persons their own age than in anything which has las the flavor of adults We mu must t consider consider con con- sider ider all of ot these an angles les in working out ut a solution Give them every possible chance to o do things alone and according to their heir own ideas Tasks should be delegated in accordance with their personal interests some children pre pro ferrIng erring to dust rather than cook or orvice orvice orvice vice versa Let them suggest chan changes es esin in n routine in home decoration in planning menus thus inspiring a greater eagerness to work than i if you OU assigned the task and they merely fulfilled it Even if they live in this home it is 15 always your home because it t is your work your money am and your our sacrifices which have made i it what it is We cant can't expect quite th same enthusiasm for work when this sense of personal ownership is lack lack- ing |