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Show Children's Schedules Vary From Adults Naturally Your Baby By MYRTLE METIS nrRlT Our leaflet, "Hours of Sleep," Indicates In-dicates the changing hours of sleep and naps for growing children. chil-dren. It may be had by sending a 3-cent stamped, self-address ri envelope with your letter to Mrs. Eldred of the Tour Baby and Mine department, la ears of The Salt Lake Telegram. When a child's stubborn resistance resist-ance makes a parent feel helpless to control her, the mother should ask herself some earnest questions. Is the Issue Important? Is what she demands for the child's ultimate ulti-mate good health, or good habits or social bene fit T If she can answer an-swer yea to any one of these, then she caa take those steps which will bring about the child's acceptance accept-ance of her decree. It la only when she Is unsure of her own aim that she should hesitate to enforce It. Mrs. E. O. writes: 1 have an 8-year-old daughter who Is good about everything but going to bed oa time. Because there Is only one bedroom, she sleeps with us. We have never been able, since she was eld enough to be wilful, I get be-to- te bed -until we do. She says she Isn't afraid, but she wont go. "If I Insist, she starts to cry. and then gets a lot of books and reads them, frantically, until I come to bed. Now she Is In school all day and I have said she must be In bed by o'clock. Again she has begua her crying and excuses. Our friends have no such trouble with their children. I have thought of bribing her, and of spanking her, but I don't know which la the best to do." Neither one Is applicable to the situation. You have given m to her for so long that she feels the matter butt Important, Isnt that the truth T But It Is Important. It Is essential essen-tial to her good health, to her school work and to her acceptance of her dlfferentnees from you, that she go to bed and have a long night's sleep. There Is no more reason why her bedtime should ' coincide with yours than that yoa should wear the same type of . clothes, eat the Identical foods or play the same games. She Is trowing, trow-ing, you are grown up. and her requirements are not the same as yours. If you spank her yoa dont convince con-vince her of the Justice of your contentions, but only at your strength and power over her. Bribing Brib-ing will again Indicate your weakness. weak-ness. Let the facts speak for themselves. She should have the bedtime hours of a growing child and those should be not later than I to 8:30, Irrespective of when you ' retire. ' """sfcss"B1l"wL PstrfsWsrsrlaf PllJH hssW-" stated your case and then steel yourself to endure the crying and the pleadings until she la convinced con-vinced you do not Intend to yield to them. You wont if you know that you are In the right So far you ha vent considered yourself to be. |