Show coddling sick child may cramp personality the lasting scars of childrens alc sickness are often not the ea raches or the poor eyesight that may have resulted from an acute illness but the cramping ot of the childs personality an AD ucb unhealthy 1 I thy personality frequently represents the cost of coddle coddling the convalescent vale scent according to katherine Kather lne brownell nger who warns of such dan dangers ers in her article how to spoil a child which appears in nagela Ely gela illness Is the time for reaping the results ot of character traits already sown then it la Is that the mother who has resorted to bribery or to threat who has tailed failed to build up confidence in her word or who has pampered her child into a state ot of utter dependence will realize the error ot of her ways the old threat of calling callin 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 ot of friendliness and confidence in the physician when the child Is well will find their burdens lightened when the child Is ill |