OCR Text |
Show Educate Small Boy for Parenthood By Giving Him a Doll Your Baby Bjr MTBTLB MTYEB nJ)J3 Our frM leaflet on "Destructive Tendencies" may be had by sending send-ing a S-cent s.nmped self-addressed envelope frith your Mtn to Mr. Eldred of the your baby and mm department In oare of The Salt Lakt Telegram. When any child, with a wicked look In hl eyea, deliberately amashes one of our priced posses alone, w are In a quandary. Wt can't argue that it was an accident We can only aay that he did It to cet our ahocked attention or to be revenged upon us. What should we do? What we want to do If to help the child to undent nd the emotion we feel when aomething predou of oun la destroyed. He can only hope to understand un-derstand the emotion If we deprive him of aomething of hla own. Mr. J. V. S. la wondering how he hall make good the playmate'! doll her ton broke. "How (hall I punish him. If at all? He did come home and tell me that he did It, and I am afraid If I puniah him that thl will drive him to lie to me. "This happened three daya ago and juat today I had the atory from an eye-witness. My ton pulled the doll from the child'a buggy and threw It on the ttreet, breaking ita head. He haa a habit of wantlng-to pull dolla away from children who have them. "We have a 7-month-old baby and he wants to hold the baby. Would It help to buy him a doll?- -My husband thinks not. Could this child be jealous of the baby? He ia just 3 yean old." Give the mother the money to replace re-place the child's doll. Then get your son to choose some beloved toy of his and go with him while he gives It to the little girl, saying he Is sorry. Then, by all means, get him a doll. If this is a toy he would enjoy en-joy having and Imitation of your conduct with the baby would lead him to such a desire don't deprive him of it Also, let him hold the baby. Sit beside him, put the baby in hii arma and thow him how ten-small ten-small babies. It Is possible that this ii a manifestation mani-festation of jealousy, , It la also possible pos-sible that there may be more girls than boys In this neighborhood and the fun they have with dolls la resented re-sented by the boy. He wants one, I too. And why shouldn't he have one? That old Idea that only girls are interested in dolls ought to be dead and burled. Dolla are just representations of babies and the modern papa ia just as interested in his children as Is the modern mama. Better start the boy's education edu-cation for parenthood with dolls. |