Show YOUR BABY I AND MINE I II II I ABy By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED I ELDRED-I 4 THE THE CROSS CROSS CHILD SHOULD BE HELPED TO FIND FIND- NEW I INTERESTS It Is useless to spend time and energy scolding a child because he lie heIs heIs lieis Is cross when the same time might better b be expended in in helping him hin hinto to find an interest that will vilI send the crossness scuttling ng Ot Of purse course the cross child may be tired in which event a bath and and i a nap should end It or he may may- have a stomach grumbling under under- the load load- of f some food 1094 o d difficult to digest in which case scolding wont won't case ease his bis disco dis dis- dis- dis co comfort But If It he is just the ordnary ord ordinary nary child ild tir tired d of ot his games tired of ot his toys all he needs are a few Cew fertile suggestions for activities that will wUl Inspire him to action I The 2 year old year is is' often more In Interested Interested In- In in helping with the the- dishes than than than-in in making sand pies The child of ot 4 may be more interested In a apan apan apart pan part of ot potatoes which she can peel than In looking at a picture book Mothers very ery often are static Because Be Be- cau cause e a child finds som something thing of In In- In t terest rest today they exp expect ct that In Interest I terest to last indefinitely Sometimes Some Some- tim times timOs s all ready made games games- pall paU on the child He wants suggestions for games gaines in which he lie has to be the creator We had our our- share of toys b but t we spent whole days pretending we we were a milliner and filling shelves with leaf leat hats Intricately trimmed with grapevine tendrils and garden flowers And to open a a. dru drug store necessitated long ong hours devoted to collecting collecting- bottles of 01 all siz sizes s. s and filling them with every concoction that might possibly re resemble resemble re- re medicine Medicine starch bluing bluin- red ed ink Int and scrapings from red bricks bick We made dew dew beds by iy filling tilling hollow spaces space in lit the time ground with moss and flowers Jowers and md covering them themI I with glass which in the early eaily mornIng morning morn- morn ing big had a most entrancing freshness s sr r and beau beauty y to our pleased eyes We Ye 1 T 7 |