The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-08-08
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CHILDREN from
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Compiled BY the Editors of "CHIIDRFN
- THE PARENTS MAGAZINE Is

ViiS VI Tue hlSl conceptions or TOD
In child's mind seems to be that God
Is a means of getting ones own way.
source of favors, of answers to
special requests for special privileges.
This is the inevitable result Of teach
ing poor prayers to. children. Many
prayers are merely q series of Pc
titions Small. wonder, then. should
a misfortune overtake daddy that the
child will say, whats the use of
praying? God didn't bless daddy"
There follows from these prayers n
bargaining spirit. l know of one child
who prayed, IF you will make my dog
Teddy well, | will keep on saying my
prayers Teddy died.
| must begin by attempting to ex-
plain to my child what God is not.
| must make it plain in simple words
that God is not means of getting
what you want. | will try to explain
that prayer should not be a series of
requests but an act of worship. | will
have to give my child this feeling by
what l do as we'll as by what | say
Martha May Reynolds of State
Teachers college, Buffalo. N. Y, has
recently had an opportunity to OBJ
serve the negativistic behavior of
some $50 children of pre-schoo age.
The results of this study point out
several important facts and suggest
few probable causes for children's re-
fusals to cooperate.
Two important facts which the
study demonstrated we're. ID that
negativism is the usual, rather than
I, the unusual thing in the early ages of
childhood. and (2) that when dealt
with properly it disappears as the
child approaches school age. For these
reasons, we should study it sympa-
thetically and with a sense of humor
and not shrink with horror from the
so-called defiance of parental author
ity which we formerly read into it. 1t
is part of the psychology of the pre-
school child. When the pre-school
child will have become school child,
then he will largely have outgrown it
and will have taken on some other
! characteristics, which at the time will
probably appear equally annoying or
serious.
The baby's second summer has lost
its terrors. These days it is merely
another slice of baby's life-a most
eXacting one, it is true, but not the
period ii used to be. A recent bulletin
of the New York department of health
indicates the present situation. 1t
heralds the passing of cholera infan-
tum, the intestinal disease once so
prevalent in summer, and so devas-
tating, particularly to the second-year
infant. From an annual toll 20 years
ago of 1000 children under five years
of age, the record of last year had
dropped to only 246.
Before using cooking utensils, wash
them thoroughly in soapsuds to re-
move the light coat of dressing that
is put on in the factory. Then any
articles that are subject to rust
should be rubbed with a cloth sat
urated with oil or unsalted fat.
The ability of children to enjoy
clothes, far from being something to
frown down, is distinctly an asset in
later life. A very great psychoanalyst
says that the genuinely happy person
is the one absorbed in the world about
him, who takes a constant joy in OBJ
jects which he can make or gather
and arrange, which are his belongings,
which express him, and bring him sat
isfaction. 1t doesn't matter as we
grow older whether our clothes please
our neighbors. The important thing
is that they please us, and give us
the sense of well-being, of fitness, of
charm, which are contributions to our
happiness.
Charr,,1r,c EncooI1o Gov