Show Bad Example to Use Baby Talk Elders Should Set Right Copy in Wholesome Lan Lan- Language Language guage and Conversation By EMMA GARY WALLACE National Kindergarten Association Baby talk tal Ie on the part of or older persons may at times sound cunning and even amusing when Imitated by bythe bythe bythe the youngest of ot the family but It Isn't fair to the ilie child Why deliberately deliberately deliberately set a faulty copy which he will continue to follow and eventually havo have to unlearn A little child has a great deal to learn In this big and complex world Into which he has come and we must admit that he ho learns an nn amazing amm number of or things s In the first few months and years Why complicate matters for him Among other things he has to learn the use of lips and tongue and teeth and throat muscles In making mal ln sounds And he has to learn com com- combinations combInations corns of or sounds and connect them with objects and actions and emotions of or different t kinds Yon You would expect that all persons who profess devotion de to him would faith faith- faithfully faithfully fully rully watch for the syllables or let Jet letters Jetters letters over which his unaccustomed articulation stumbles and give gl him hima a clearly and slowly enunciated sam sam- sample sample sample of or the right sound to be used If U It were noted for example that little Billy Dilly could say kitty kl but when in the habit of saying for kitchen his mother you would ex ex- expect expect ex- ex expect would several se times pronounce the word kitchen distinctly using such sentences afterwards as Kitty Is In the kitchen This would give Billy an nn association of at sounds to guide him She would never ne ask him not to say but It would probably be noticeable that In Ina Ina Ina a few tew days he would drop the faulty pronunciation If I Instead this mother moiler should do doa a g fod od deal of or talking about erf en being wrong or should repeat the pronunciation In the tho form of ot baby talk the error would be more and more deeply engraved on his mind and it would be correspond correspond- correspondIngly correspondIngly Ingy difficult for tor him to drop the In In- Incorrect Incorrect correct syllable Similarly It Is often wiser not to take much notice of undesirable echo words wor s which the th children pick up from others but Instead of that to set the right copy and exam exam- pie pIc In wholesome language and con con- conversation conversation and In kindly mental atti atU- tudes tulles A wise man said I am the sum total of all I have ever met Our Oar characters are made up of or our re re- reactions reactions re- re reactions actions to the Influences with which we have made contact So it Is very Important and vital that the best ex ex- examples examples ex- ex examples amples and the best Influences be given Riven Iven our children In order that these may far outweigh h those less Jess desirable ones which they will In In- Inevitably inevitably c meet A business man speaks of ot losses as represented by figures fi In the tho red Baby talk tulle and faulty conduct copy belong In the red |