Show bad example to use baby talk elders eldera should set right copy in wholesome language and conversation by EMMA GARY WALLACE national kindergarten association daby baby talk on the part of older Iter persons sous may at times sound cunning and even amusing when mitten imitated by the youngest OUn gest of the family but it lin ion t fair to the child 11 liy hy deliberately met et a faulty copy which lie will continue to ta follow and eventually have to un unlearn loarn A little child has a gretat deal to learn in this big and complex world into which he has come and we e must admit that he learns an burning amazing number of things in the first few months and years why complicate matters mattera for himl among other things he be has to bearn the use of lips and tongue and teeth and throat in linking and he be haw has to learn combinations bi nations of sot BOI ads nd and connect thea with objects anti and actions and emotions of different kinds lou ou would expect that nil all persona mho w ho profess devotion to him would mould faithfully watch for the syllables or letters over which alch his unaccustomed articulation stumbles and ghe ee him a clearly and slowly enunciated sample of the right sound to be used it it were ere noted for example that little rilly could any I 1 kitty but aben w hon in the habit of baling ing for kitchen his mother you aull expect would several times pronounce the word katlien kite hen distinctly using ing US uch each sentences afterwards as kitty Is in in the kitchen kl tihon this would give lilly billy an association of sounds to guide him she would mould reer ask him not to nay may thit lien but it would probably be that in a few days he be would mould drop the faulty pronunciation if instead this thin mother should do a good dial of talling talking about I 1 en being wrong or should repent the pronunciation in the lie forin of baby talk the error would mould le ie more and more deeply engraved on his mind and it would mould be correspond angly difficult dini cult for him film to drop the incorrect syllable similarly it Is often wiser miser not to take much notice of undesirable echo words holcli the children pick up from others ot liers but instead of that at to set act the right copy and exam plo in wholesome language and con pe rati ra atlon tion and in kindly mental attitudes A 1 IM ninn man said bald 11 1 I gin am the um sum total of all I 1 have hare ever met mev 9 out our characters character are made up of our reactions to the influences influence with which we hate base made contact so it is very important and vital that the best beat ex amples and the lie best beat influences be given our children to in order that these may fr far outweigh those less lesa desirable ones which they will in elt ably meet A business roan man speaks of losses hosiea as ai represented by figures oln in the red alaby talk and faulty conduct copy balon b lone in the red |