Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-09-05
O n II EAR I NG
CHILDREN from
CRIB TO COLLEGE
Compiled by the Editors Of
THE PARENTS MAGAZINE

school to teach their children to be
creative, to have initiative, unless
they are anxious to see those chill
dren do creative things at home. An
education is not something child
constructs in schoolhOuse, and
which he stores in a locker there I'M
til such time as he is ready to leave
both home and school and go to
work in the world on his own intia-
tive. Teachers live in one world, and
parents In another. But the school
child has to live In both, and few
teachers and almost no parents real
lie the gulf between these two worlds
which the child has to cross twice
daily, going to school and coming home.
Pasteurizing milk means the sub
jecting of 1t to a temperature Of
about 145 to $50 degrees for period
of time GO to 80 minutes) so as to
destroy common disease organisms,
(dlphtheria, scarlet fever, tubercu-
losis, and so FORTH and to delay spoil
age processes, without making any
marked change In the taste. In the
home the milk may be pasteurized in
the bottles which are used for the
feelings or pasteurizers may be
bought. II the bottles are to be used.
ill them with the required amount Of
properly prepared milk, in the correct
amount so that each bottle contains
one feeding, stopper them with cotton
wadding cOrks or rubber corks, set In
wire rack in the pail. fill the pail
with cold water to line above the
milk in the bottles. This is permitted
to come to the boiling point. Then
remove the pail from the fire, cover
to keep it warm. and after 20 minutes
cool the bottles in cold water and
put on ice. Use within "a hours.
II making a portrait indoors by a
window, 1t is better to pose" the
chair, placing 1t at the right distance
about three feet from the window
and in a position to give the right
lighting. Then have the child sit
down and he or she will probably as
sumo a natural and characteristic at
titude.
There Is the mother who watches
her youngsters playing and splashing
In the water. She cannot swim her.
self. and she sits in agony lest they
venture too far, or step over their
depth while she sits there helpessy.
If only she could join them and enter
into their fun she would he in posi-
ton to warn them should they get
Overilaring instead of calling words
of caution from the beach, which the
children resent as unnecessary and
hampering to their play. If this
mother will but watch her children
with the idea of learning from them
and absorbing some of their daring
rather than trying to restrain them
she will. before long. be in position
to show by example and her words
will be backed with more authority.
Who can blame child for rebelling
against advice given by one who does
not know the subject upon which he
is lecturing?
The more a youn:ster does for him
self. the happier be is. Some mothers
have found that when the bed is too
high for the two-year-old to climb
into 1t, the provision of little box
as step makes the scramble into
bed something of an alluring accom-
plishment. With some encourage
ment children of nursery school age
will take pride in pulling the covers
about themselves and in not throw
ing Off the cover after they are asleep.
One mother tells how her little girl
gradually won from the state of being
pinned securely into her bed clothes
to the point where one pin, which
was used merely for psychological
purposes, was enough. In this case
the encouragement of her mother and
the child's pride in her development
were responsible for the progress.