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Show Bribing Child Gains Nothing By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED "Please, Jimmy, be a good little boy! Mother is going to have company, and if you act nicely and speak to the guests politely and run out of the room and play so as not to dis- Your Baby turb mother, she'll buy you something some-thing you want the very next time she goes down town." This is one of the tools with which mothers attempt to forestall misbehavior misbe-havior when they have reached a point that they do not "believe" in punishment 8uch bribes, as a mother discovers, discov-ers, usually affect the child for the moment. The younger the child, the more quickly the memory of what the reward may be evaporates from his mind. Our leaflet on "Bribes for Good Behavior" may be had for the usual S-cent stamped, self-addressed self-addressed envelope sent with your request for the leaflet by name to Myrtle Meyer Eldred of the your baby and mine department depart-ment of The Salt Lake Telegram. Tele-gram. But the mother keeps on putting her faith in bribes. She does it to wheedle the child into going to sleep (instead of trying to determine why any healthy child wouldn't be sleepy at bedtime). i Yet all that she really accomplishes accom-plishes is a temporary respite from the behavior that bothers her. The moment the bribe is removed the whole artificial setup collapses and there she is right where she began, be-gan, except that she has developed a really bad habit the demand for some reward as the boon of good behavior. It Is decidedly not worth the price. |