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Show Babies Should Grow in Skill And in Manners By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED As the baby Increases in age and weight, he ahould be given the opportunity op-portunity to acquire new habits and practice new skills, in order that his mental development shall keep pace with ths physical. If baby wer Your Baby fancy, he would tend to remain at the level of infancy. The success he enjoys as he acquire new habits hab-its and skills stimulatea him to new efforts. Sometimes babies are smarter than their parents and begin to refuse re-fuse bottles, demand to be fed from cups or stop waking for night feedings feed-ings before the age when the parents par-ents are willing to initiate such training. Tim to Weu Puzzled ha been told that her 9-month-old baby needs weaning from the bottle. He weigh 19 pounds, has firm flesh and good color and gets four bottles of milk a day, plus two tablespoons of corn syrup. The leaflet, "Weaning From Bottle to Cup." may be had for aending a aelf-addressed, 3-cent stamped envelope to your baby nd mine department. In care of" The Salt Lake Telegram. "In addition, I give him orange Juice and cooked fruit, one can of baby vegetables, a cracker, some cereal and one dose of rod liver oil. I do not think I would have any difficulty giving him mlk by cup. as he takes orange Juice and water that way, but we are going to move Into a new home in about a month and I hat to start training now while we are living in a hotel. "What foods shall I give him at 10 in the morning and at night when he refuse cereal?" Drink From Cup Sinre the baby can drink from a cup, I'd give him the opportunity to drink his milk that way. Let him take whatever he will take willingly in this way and finish by bottle. Gradually Increase the amount by cup and decrease It by bottle. By this method it may take a month, but will not upset the baby. Ripe, sieved banana Is an excellent excel-lent substitute for cereal and can be given twice daily, one small banana ba-nana each time. When training a child toward new habits, remember the longer the old ones are continued the more inflexible inflexi-ble they become. Benin training early and then there will be no draa-tic draa-tic "break," but just a gradual acquisition ac-quisition of a new way of doing things, which the baby will enjoy. |