Show Coddling Sick Child May Cramp Personality The lasting scars of childrens children's sickness sick sickness ness are arc often not nat the earaches or th the poor eyesight that may have ha resulted from Inn an nn acute Illness but the cramping crampIng cramp- cramp I Ing of or the lie childs child's personality An unhealthy personality frequently represents represents represents rep rep- resents the cost of coddling the convalescent convalescent con con- according to KatherIne Brownell who warns o of such dangers In her article How t to Spoil Spoils a Child which appears In Illness Is the time for reaping th the I results of or character traits already sown Then it Is that the mother mothe who has resorted to bribery or to threat who has hns failed to lo build up confidence In her word or who ha has pampered her child Into n a state o of utter dependence will realize the error cr cr- er- er of her wa ways s The TIle old threat o of calling the doctor or the nurse o or orsome orsome some other bogeyman In order to frighten the child Into obedience now becomes a n boomerang Parents who build bund up an nn attitude of frIendliness and confidence In the physician when rhen the child chill is well will find their burdens burdens burdens bur bur- dens lightened when the child is |