Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-15 | Page 12 | Don't Ignore All Child's Social Tangles

Your Baby Don't Ignore All Child's SocialTangles By MYRTLE MEYER ELD RED Any reader Interested may obtain ob-tain the free leaflet, "Children's Quarrels," for the usual 3-cent-stamped, self-addressed envelope sent In with a request to Mrs. Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department In care of Th Salt Lake Telegram. No one would want to imply that a mother should Ignore all the social tangles Into which her children get theWelves, but on should be wary about how these are handled. The mother of an only child is apt to be a fuss-budget fuss-budget about her lone chick and to want to make everything too perfect for him. It Is pretty unprofitable un-profitable to try to straighten out all social conflicts, the child has to learn to manage these himself. "I have read your column for years and wish you would help me with advice about my 8-year-old girl. "We moved Into this neighborhood neighbor-hood nine months ago. My little girl Is no different from other children, but every day when she goes to school a couple of children, chil-dren, four of five years older, pick on her. "I know It Is no use fighting for children, because they will be together again. But the other day I decided to talk this over with the other mother. I asked her and the girl over here and told her about It and she told her daughter to stop picking on my girl. They seemed to be ail right when they left and the next day the children went to school together. But a day or two after when my girl went up to this child she refused to talk to her and said her mother had said she wasn't allowed to play with her. Things like this hurt me terribly, ter-ribly, Mrs. Eldred. I am nearly crazy about It." I am sorry to say this emotion seems to me excessive. Is there any social reason why you feel that you want these children to be nice to your daughter? They are neither of them of an age to be truly companionable and while they need not pick on her, the chances are they would not If she didn't fore herself upon them. It might have been more tactful tact-ful to handle this through the teacher, but It was also somewhat some-what petty of the other mother to take revenge upon you In this particular way. She might have shown herself a bigger person, since you were frank with her.