Show bad example to use baby talk elders should set right copy in wholesome language and conversation by EMMA GARY WALLACE national kindergarten association baby talk tails on the part of older persons persona may at times sound cunning canning and even amusing when imitated by the youngest of the family but it fair to the child why dell deliberately ber set a faulty copy which he will continue to follow and eventually nave have to to un unlearn loarn A little child has a great greaf deal to learn earn in n this big and complex world into which he has come and we must admit that he learns an amazing number of things in the first few months and years why comp complicate E acate matters for him among other things he has to learn jcarl the use of lips and tongue and teeth and throat muscles in making sounds and he has to learn combinations bi of sounds and connect thea with objects and actions and emotions of different kinds you would expect that all persons who profess devotion to him would faithfully watch tor for the syllables or let tors over er which his unaccustomed articulation stumbles and give him a clearly and slowly enunciated sample of the right sound to be used it if it were noted for example that little billy could say kitty hitty but when in the habit of saying thit ebere for kitchen his mother you would expect pec t would several times pronounce the word kitchen distinctly using such sentences afterwards as kitty Is in the kitchen this would give billy an association of sounds to guide him she would never ask alz him not to say twitchen itchen th 11 but it would probably be noticeable that in a few days he would drop the faulty pronunciation if instead this mother should do abood a good deal of talking about en being wr wrong ong or should repeat the pronunciation in the form of baby talk the error would be more and more deeply engraved on his mind and it would be correspondingly difficult for him to drop the incorrect syllable similarly it Is often wiser not dot to take much notice of undesirable echo words which the children pick up from others but instead of that to set the right copy and exam pie in wholesome some language and conversation and in kindly mental attitudes ades A wise man sa bald id 1 ii I am the s sum um total of all I 1 have ever met our characters are m made ado up ot of au our r reactions to the influences with which we have made contact so it Is very important and vital that the best examples and the best influences be given our children in order that these hase may far outweigh those less desirable ones which they will inevitably evit ably meet A business man speaks of losses a as 9 represented by figures in the rod red eaby daby talk and faulty conduct copy belong in the red |