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Show Your Baby t Use Right Word To Express . Your Meaning By MYRTLE MEYEB ELDRED Parents are constantly amaaed at the apod with which children build up a vocabulary. At first they point, then speak haltingly eome-Umu eome-Umu only a few syllablM of the word than (Ubly they are aaytng "davenport" and "holiday" and a hundred and on other word which to us seem quit remarkable. We should make it a point te use the right word for an object If -we gat into toe habit of saying parta of words, or simple words, bccau we feci the right word would be difficult for ths child, ws complicate compli-cate his learning. All Words Are New One word Is the sam as another word to a child. Each one Is strange and new. If we attach the right word to an object and keep repeating repeat-ing K, then he geta that word fixed ' in hie mind. Our habit is to allow the child to garble a word and then perpetuate the garbled version because be-cause it's "cute." When my little grandson flopped down in my bedroom one day, he said. "I like this big chair." To which I said, "That is a chaise longue." "Oh." he said, in that tone, which expresses so perfectly hi perpetual wonderment Now he calle It chaise-longue chaise-longue a gHbly as he said big chair. Chose Word Carefully W are all glvsn to calling objects ob-jects "thing-e-ma-bobs" and "do-jiggers' "do-jiggers' and other term which express ex-press our own (loppy thinking. Every object ha a nam. Every emotion Is expressible. W may have to hunt about a bit to find the words which elucidate our Idea; but we have no idea nntil w can definitely nail them in thought or apeech or writing ' through th medium of word. Our free leaflet, "Normal Speech Development," may be had by (ending (end-ing a I -cent stamped, self -addressed envelope with your letter to Mrs. Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department in care of The Telegram. |