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