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Show Coddling Sick Child May Cramp Personality The lasting scars of children's sickness sick-ness are often not the earaches or the poor eyesight that may have resulted from an acute Illness but the cramping cramp-ing of the child's personality. An unhealthy personality frequently represents rep-resents the cost of coddling the convalescent, con-valescent, according to Katherine Brownell Oettinger, who warns of such dangers In her article, "How to Spoil a Child," which appears In Hygela. Illness Is the time for reaping the results of character traits already town. Then It Is that fehe mother who has resorted to bribery or to threat who has failed to build up confidence In her word, or who has pampered her child Into a state of utter dependence will realize the error er-ror of her ways. The old threat of calling the doctor or the nurse or some other "bogeyman" In order to frighten the child Into obedience now becomes a boomerang. Parents who build up an attitude of friendliness and confidence In the physician when the child Is well will find their burdens bur-dens lightened when the child Is HL |