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Show DO NOT ROCK THE BABY. Regular feedings will assist the baby's sleeping. If he doesn't go to sleep at once, let him alone. Supposing he does j want to make use of his eyes for a while longer! that's his right. Under no circumstances cir-cumstances ever try to coax him to go to sleep. Never sing to him, never roek him. never walk with him. never lie on the bed with him never resort to any device whatsoever to put him to sleep, "and you never will 'have to; if you do it when he is young, you have taken the first step toward making the baby a little tyrant and yourself his slave. Do it if you will, but when you get all run down from "taking "tak-ing care or' the baby, pray have the decency de-cency not to expect any sympathy. Not only have you started him on the road to impudent selfishness, but you have un- j duly hastened the development of his ' brain and seriously injured his nervous system. It is not even necessary that things should be quiet when the baby goes to sleep. Let the usual noises go on, and he will never have any difficulty in sleeping among them. Frank Barkley Copley in -"Give the Baby a Chance," in the Outing- Magazine for June. |