Show Y JUp y AN APPRECIATIVE MOTHER A Reader writes Reading your column has helped me me more mor than I can tell My first baby was oh so so spoiled and I wore myself out caring for her and In return return had had nothing but a spoiled nervous child The whole truth was wasI I didn't know enough to leave her alone Now my second 1 baby aby Is five months old She is being reared in accordance with your jour our baby books distributed bythe by the government Editors Editor's Editors Edi Edl- tors tor's note Mrs Eldred's leaflets are distributed by this newspaper newspaper not the government Government b booklets are not written by her She has four feedings at the breast and one bottle feeding dally daily She sleeps six hours in the daytime daytime day day- time and from ten to six at night without waking I am so proud and happy that I want to tell everyone that them there Is nothing Juke loke schedule and regularity Now I Iv wish v sh to know if It sho shots is too young ung to have a a. sun suh bath in the open in Ina a sun suit Also I 1 I want to say a a. word about fears In children My Iy daughter two years of ot age starting asking for a alIght alight alight light to tov go to bed and I told her she could have one but that with a light she wouldn't be able to see eee the stars' stars or moon So she forgot about the light question Now I tell her a pretty fairy story at bedtime and she goes to bed with happy thoughts thoughts' ANSWER Your Tour experience Is worth something something some some- thing ng b because cause you have tried b both th t ways trays and discovered t fr far r yourself that regularity and schedules pa pay The mothers who say with scorn I There Is nothing to this regularity aro are without exception the mothers who have never tried to train a child to a regular schedule and therefore have no way of ot comparing haphazard ard methods and scientific ones It ot Often n happens though that they c convince con convince con con- I vince young mothers with new babies that modern ways ways' ways are useless useless useless use use- less and so start them off all aU wrong The baby can have a sunbath dally daily as soon as the weather is definitely settled We jVe We have a a leaflet leaflet on how to give gle sunbaths which h wll wU help you In IngoIng Ingoing ingoing going slowly with sunbaths and in making the exposures brief and of gradually lengthening duration For Forthe Forthe Forthe the small baby there doesn't seem to be much use for tor a sun suit The Th baths are most effective when given girth In Jn the nude Your Tour method of t helping your little girl to enjoy the tho darkness was a a good goodone one I wouldn't l have aYe made mad one one statement to her though beca because se It I wasn't true and We must always stick sock to the truth In d dealing with small impressionable children You Tou might have told her that In the dark she sho could more more easily talk to Peter Rabbit Rabbit But But to tell her that that he wouldn't come If It she had the light lighton on was in the way of ot being a sort of threat wasn't It it And of course she sho should know that Peter Rabbit is Just a make male male-be make rabbit Shell She'll enjoy him just as much knowing this I didn't Include this In joUr o r letter letter letter let let- ter for fear ih that t the suggestion |