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Show ins Your Baby j Ignoring Tot's Swearing Is Best Method By MYBTLE METES ELD SUED Mrs. Eldred will answer your (questions about diet, general cars and management of children If you will send a 3-cent stamped, self-addressed envelops with your letter to Mrs. Eldred of tha your baby and mine department In cars of Tha Salt Lake Telegram. Tele-gram. When parents can be amotion ally prepared for tha shock the srs certain to get when the! young Innocents begin to use "ter rible" words, they will have 1 1 much better chance to dlscouragi this tendency In tha beginning. J They must be prepared, for a C four years slmost sny child any where Is certain to begin expert mentation with new words. I goes without ssylng that words an I just sounds to ths child, but the srs burdened for us with all thi Import of our larger experiences. Mrs. C T. D. wonders If then e la-at-way-4 get has a yea aid to stop swearing, er "She does not hear It at home,' d her mother writes, "but nothing ot hava done to stop her has beei r- successful." er Ths probability Is that If yoi I't had dona nothing or said nothini ils the child would hava stopped loni since. No matter how Innocuou et the word may be, as for Instanct IL "ba ba," which la utterly meaning a less. If the moment tha child say o- "ba ba" we say, "Don't let m lie hear you use those words again,' ut we may ba sure the child will 01 ca fired with determination to sa; them again. Each time aha say at them and they are met by thi la. family expressions of horror am ey dismay, the desire becomes thi o- stronger. Making tha parents set red Is a feat which wa can't blanv tha child for attempting. It ha in such satisfying results, a. But If these new words wen met by a blank stars and a ston silence, what Incentive would then be to repeat them? Nona what ever. When tha child has shocked thi parent repeatedly, then shs ma; have to ba told that while shs cai talk that way If shs chooses (am shs can, can't she?), It Is possibli that mothers will not want theii little girls to play with her. Moth era choose for playmates ot theli children those who use nice words But if you desire you are quiti within your rights to send thi child to her room when shs talk In a way that la displeasing ti your ears. Parents who prepare them serves for the profanity all chll dren pick up will be able to shov Indifference even though they d not feel It Then the child stopi using ths words because they an unexciting In themselves and futili as a means of arousing the parenl to any display of emotion. |