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Show Your Baby And Mine By afYBTLB METES ELDUD BAD HABITS ESTABLISHED EASILY, BUT DIE HABO It la disconcerting to a mother to discover how easily a child acquires bad habits. Here Is a baby who had colic at least his mother caWcd It that and who was given a bottle of warm water after each feeding so that be would go to sleep. Now the colic la no longer present, but the beby cant flo to sleep without a bottle. WHAT SHALL BE DONE Habits are patterns of action which arise la response to definite equations. equa-tions. The real satisfaction . to the baby In the above situation should have been the act of going to sleep. But this satisfaction waa denied biro because he waa hungry. With his emptiness aUayed by a bottle of warm water, he gave himself up to the satisfaction of going to sleep. Now he can't rid himself of the desire for the two satisfactions. Sleep cant be enjoyed without the bottle which k. -.it... ,,nlihl him With the habit formed, what shall be done about itr That Is a question seldom easy to answer. The mother must be certain cer-tain that the baby's present diet Is all it should be. A weU filled stomach, stom-ach, quiet and Inaction arc conditions condi-tions conducive to slumber. It must be the mother's effort to furnish these three, so tnat ane may graa-ually graa-ually withdraw the stimulus to which the baby is now accustomed, DOUBTFUL POUCY Parents of atrong babies have steeled themselves to nights of cry-Ing cry-Ing m order to break a baby of some bad bedtime habit But In the main I am opposed to such methods of changing habits. The baby may accept ac-cept the loss of some bedtime soother, but to substitute, the hsblt of crying for a half hour or so before be-fore going to sleep is wrong. No mother would consider this a satisfactory satis-factory adjustment of the difficulty. First of all, make sura of the diet Note the gain and note the baby's own satisfaction with the diet A well fed baby la placid and motion-leu motion-leu after a meaL He wants nothing so much aa to be left alone. His interest in-terest in the water bottle may be gradually diminished by offering it to him only partially filled with water wa-ter and taking it away the moment he Is through with it Having lulled himself to drowsiness, he'll be in no mood to howl lengthily. DECBEASE AMOUNTS Each succeeding night reduce the amount of water slightly and remove the bottle Immediately when It is empty. By the end of the week bsby will be getting Just a swallow or two. The next step, complete removal, cornea as no greet shock. It la trite to repeat that good habits hab-its are more easily established than bad habits broken. The time to ponder pon-der over that la when some situs tlon ariaea which Inspires the mother to start some bad habit Better make every effort to discover what is causing caus-ing the particular altuation and correct cor-rect that, rather than end it momentarily momen-tarily by some habit which later on the mother will certain tly be called upon to break. Tesaerreer TaU Call the Trath Whea Ha Asks SesQueetleae." ' Serve orange marmalade with hot biscuits, graham gems, waffles or toast It makes a very good filling for graham bread aandwlchea. |