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Show YOUR BABY AND MINE Childish Quarrels Demand Parental Understanding ways be warned that there la M tportamanehip, bat serious danger, dan-ger, la using weapon aoeh aa tick or (tones, against which the other child baa no real defense. de-fense. Our leaflet No. 57 "Chlklreo'a Quarrels," suggest nother'a part, too. It may be had by sending send-ing a tamped, oelf-addreeocd envelope with your request to Myrtle Meyer Eldred m ear of The Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram Home Service Bureau. play alone. And the will If ahe finds that crying- about It doesn't bring any playmates. When ahe la playing with others, oth-ers, If you Insist upon her giving giv-ing up, then you should insist, equally, that the others give up to her when she has the toys first. This has to be a fifty-fifty proposition. But? ahe is too young to manage man-age situations auch as you described. de-scribed. How could ahe defend herself, except by picking up another stick and belaboring the other child ? Just what would happen then to two infuriated babies with no idea of how damaging dam-aging a stick could bet The smart thing to do was to run to you and fast. And the other oth-er child should be sent home, and her mother told of the weapon she was using, so that ahe would auffer some penalty for it. When children quarrel, separate separ-ate them. By the time they are of school age they may fight, with fiats. But children must al- By MYRTIE MEYER ELDRED While It Is a good general principle prin-ciple to allow children to learn to take responsibility for their own social difficulties, it is too much to ask a child of SV4 years to get himself out of the quarrela quar-rela and fighting In which ha might be Involved, without soma help from an adult. Mrs. J. 8. wants to know what ahe can do when her child comes to her screaming when anyone hits her. "My little girl is 3 H." , she writes, "and aha playa very nicely with other children, as I have taught her to do. I have, always made her give up her things, if they had them first. But, she won't take her part with other children, just seems to be afraid of everything and yet doesn't want to play alone.. "One day a little girl picked up a big stick and started hitting hit-ting her across the arms and back, because ahe had something ahe wanted. Instead of defending defend-ing herself, she came to me crying cry-ing and holding her arm. I was so furious I aent the child home. How can I make her play alone when children aren't here and ""defend herself Trhen they trtV You are the victim of a contradictory con-tradictory policy. You MAKE the child give up her toys, thus interfering with her management manage-ment of her play situations, but you rebel at helping her when aha had to endure physical mistreatment. mis-treatment. Of course, when there is no one to play with, ahe has to |