Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-03-09
CARE
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the food full strength. Increase in
the diet should be made with special
caution at the beginning of summe,
or during hte extreme heat, when
there is great danger of inducing dia-
rrhea. 1t is far better to keep the
baby on low diet, even without in
creasing his weight, than to upset
the intestinal tract by overlooking.
If, after trying a new food, vomiting
occurs or the stools show that there
is indigestion, it is always best to re-
turn to the weaker food until the dis
turbance has disappeared.
SLEEP
The infant brain increases it's size
two and one-half times in the first
year, a greater growth than takes
place during all the remaining years
of life. At the same time this enOr-
nous brain development is taking
place the other organs of the little
body are growing rapidly. During
sleep the body tissues are re-created
and the energy and materials needed
for the activity of the waking hours
are stored up. 1t is manifest, then,
that the baby must have a cores
pondingly large allowance of sleep.
He should be provided with the best
possible sleeping Accommodations. SO
that the hours of sleep may be of the
greatest value to him. He should al
ways sleep in bed by himself, and
whenever possible in room by him
self where he need not be disturbed
by the presence of other persons, and
where the light warmth, and ventila-
ton may be adjusted to his particular
needs. Not a few young babies are
smothered while lying in bed with an
older person some part of whose body
is thrown over the baby's face dur
ing heavy sleep.
CLEANLY HABITS
Children should be taught very ear
ly that ii is not safe to use a hand.
kerchief that has been used by some
one else, and for similar reasons the
use of individual towels and wash
cloths should be insisted upon.
A baby should be taught to blow
its nose. to submit its tongue and
throat to inspection, to gargle, and to
regard the doctor as friend whose
visits are to be looked forward to with
PitdouiC. <httCllllol " thCoC ou66CC-
tions will make the task of the ply
stefan at some critical time far less
difficult than it might otherwise be.
If baby has some time been threat
ened with a visit from the doctor as
means of securing obedience, his
fear may be serious drawback to
successful treatment.
THE PROBLEM OF TEMPER.
Mrs. Chenery has defined temper
as,,"high spirits Joined to nerves and
WILL" The definition is very good
one. because in the lives of most chill
Gren it consists of a spirited attitude
in strong-willed child which has
been stimulated by some particular
nervous condition.
One of the nervous excitations to
which children are too often subject
is the temper of their own parents.
Too often we are off guard in the
presence of our children and fail to
recognize that they take the color OF
their feelings. as well as their actions
almost entirely from ourselves. The
parent who knows himself to be
quick-tempered must surely have the
deepest sympathy for his child who
suffers from the same malady. Woe
indeed to the child who has a hot
tempered parent who forgets that ii
is contagious. 1t is so easy for par
ents, who assume that their respon-
sibility implies the need or the privi-
lege of autocratic government, to lose
their tempers when mere dictatorial-
ness, as it usually does, fails. IF l
put myself into temper" says par
ent. my child is frightened" This
remark is sometimes made as justi-
fication for this method of govern
ment. do you really mean that you
put yourself into temper? What an
example for your son. He may per-
haps be pleased to have made you
put yourself into a passion but is that
a pleasure you should procure for
him? You say he trembles before
you. Truly one might think that
you were proud of yourself. If your
child discovers that you take plea
sure in his fears,-and he will discov-
er it sooner or later,-will he not be
less likely to be frightened in the fu-
ture and possibly to lose all fear of
you in the end?"
Some children are kept in a con-
tinual state of irritation by being
teased. They may be SO hypersensi-
tive to sounds and sights that for q
brother to continue to make discord-
ant noises willfully or to make hor-
rifying faces is to cause them to lose
all self-control. There are some ad-
ults so foolish as to amuse themselves
by teasing children, seeming to re-
gard the exercise as an expression of
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which they are perpetrating. An or
ticle in Home Progress" gives a very
good example of this form of teasing
visited friend who had a dear little
girl Of three years. She was the best
tempered, sunniest child / had ever
seen. Good nature fairly beamed
from her chubby little face, and her
mother told me she had been so from
baby. No one could help loving her.
She was most winsome, attractive
child. Then. last week / visited in
the same home. and / was simply
amazed at the difference in the child.
Her face wore pettish, discontinued
expression. Her voice was sharp and
whining. Her manner was short,
snappy and disagreeable. / looked in
vain for the slightest trace of the
sweet. happy, goodnatured baby had
known. and l was disappointed be-
yond measure. 1t was not until We
were at dinner that | began to under
stand the cause of the change. My
friends bachelor brother lived with
them. and. although he was a good
natured, well-meaning fellow, he was
what some people call tease" He
was devoted to his little niece. could
see that; but from the minute we sat
down at the table he began to tease
her. She was about to help herself
to piece of bread when he sliced
the plate and laughingly kept it just
out of her reach. She frowned and
scolded, but he laughingly kept up the