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Show 'The Family Scrapbook ly DR. ERNEST. G. OSBORNE "It seem to be rather common com-mon for parents to be more worried wor-ried about doing the best Job possible in bringing up their first child thsn they are about his younger brothers and sis- ' ten. Nothing could be more natural. Thev have had little, experience with babies. They worry more about whether things ar going right. And aver again on finds that they expect. Bier from the first child. As subsequent offspring ar-rive, ar-rive, both mother and father tend to relax. They probably doa't try to train the younger children quite ao early. They "take it easy" In a lot.ef waya. And all thia makea for greater calmness snd relaxation in the - child. Unfortunately, it'a common for parenta to continue to follow fol-low the pattern of expectation they have developed with the older child just as It was built up.. So he finda that h is expected ex-pected to be on his own much more. Baby brother can play 'With thing that ar forbidden hia older brother. He hear "he's only a baby" again and . again. Yet, when he was the baby'a age, ouch thing were forbidden him. He was expected ex-pected to be more grown up. Oldest children may feel that such things ar unfair. Yet parents find It hard to see thst they treat him differently than they do the younger kids. |