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Show TO OVERCOME FEAR IN CHILDREN "Mothers must be ready in timo to anticipate fenr' says a -writer in the April Woman's Home Companion, "and show how groundless much of it is. When it Is too late to do this, mothers should try to help their children chil-dren overcome it. "The fear of the dark is something almost sure to bo found in every child. Thero may be strange animal's in the dark, or burglars, or supernatural superna-tural beings! Or there may merely bo a haunting terror of something unknown. un-known. Such fears must never bo laughed at. The best plan Is to make home seem a very safe place, where father and mother arc always near. Later on will come the time when the child may be taught physical and mental bravery." |