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Show Y r Baby Indifference In Child : Is Annoying By MTRTLE MEYER ELDRED fc'a primary oaus of friction In a household when a child 1 indifferent indiffer-ent to a parent's rt quest. "Get aha . a acUsora, dearie nether asks, a aha pull hard on th obstreperous cord. ' To which Ellen, deep io the mysteries mys-teries of a book, I completely drsf. Only after two call and an ominous ton In her mother' vole doe she go, grumbling !y, .to find th cla-or. cla-or. But when Ellen says, "Help me with that candy, mother, I want It to be Juat right." mthr feels It not at all embarrassing to say, "I can't, ' dear, do th boat you can, I have to finish thl letter to Aunt Jo." Children ar supposed to see at a glance that their demand upon another's tlm ar preposterous. Yet adults Immediately conceive It to be an affront to their authority when a child signifies his desir to finish what hs Is doing, or perhaps alough off th responsibility for doing what the parent requests. There la na question but that a parent moat paranta. perhaps I should aay fel a child owes them ' a am debt of gratitude for their own obvioua expenditure for tkem and th child' willingness to put his nimble lege at their disposal Is. one way of paying off some of the debt. Th ehajicaa sre very great that a Child would be willing to be at very one' beck and call war he to be treated to th aama kind of un-aelflsh un-aelflsh cooperation. If daddy would onidr It no hardship to drop hi vtning paper to play a bedtime game of Chinese checker) or mother break off a brldg gam In order to do eome Important ahopping with Mary. Mutual deference for each other's requests I essential. It I Inconsid-rat Inconsid-rat of a parent to sk a child to drop real work of her own, to atop ia the middle of a fascinating story, merely to carry out soms trivial re-flusst re-flusst of th parent Th friction rises whan th parent falls to rec-inlM rec-inlM thl as readily as does th hlld. Free Leaflet Our free leaflet on "Wis Man-aiement Man-aiement of tha Child" deal with Children under 6 being Introduced -to tactful dlsorplln. It may be -kad by sanding t-eent stamped self-addraaaad envelope with your letter to Mrs. Eldred of tha your J)aby and mine department la oar )f Th Bait Lake Telegram. mr . |