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Show I TO OVERCOME FEAR I IN CHILDREN I "Mothers must bo ready In tlmo to I anticipate fear," says a writer In I the April Woman's Homo Companion, Compan-ion, "and show how groundless much ot It is. When It is too lato to do this, mothers Bhould try to help tho children overcome It. "The fear of tho dark Is something almost sure to be found in every child. There may bo strango animals ani-mals In the daYk, or burglars, or supernatural sup-ernatural belngsl Or there may merely mere-ly bo a haunting terror of something unknown. Such fears must never bo laughed at. Tho best plan Is to mako homo seem n very safo plac3 whero father and mother nre always near. Later on will como tho tlmo when the child may bo taught physical and mental bravery." |