The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-14
RYOUR CHILDREN
By Olive Roberts Hsrton
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one of the best ways to teach n little child courage or anything in fact, is to do it with him. If he sees someone ho loves very much, naturally. n parent, doing some thing ho will not only bo br0ver himself about 1t, but that imita. | tIvo Interest of hIs will prove stronger than his dislike.
 If n little child sits dew to his supper nt tho big table and sees tho others eating chops, gravy, sweet potatoes and pie, while fao. Ing him on his own little plate are toast, spinach and q coddled egg, tho chances arc he will have to have every bit coaxed Into him unless he is exceptionally we'll trained.
 1t would be tho height of dip. iomacy, if he must be at the table, for each parent to eat q portion of what he cats, or otherwise try to match their food to his.
 Killing Fear of Water A child screams when he gets ing himself in tho bathroom when ho washes and slaves and brushes his teoth, his little son might Do allowed in to see, And the lesson put over something like this, "Dad- dy has to be cioan. He has to have his teeth brushed and his cars washed and his hair brushed because If he didn't people would say, oh, what dirty man! We don't like dirty people. Wo only liko clean people, Daddy has n lot of friends because he is so nice md clean,
 A child Is afraid of water. Well, of course that is q story by itself and tho best cure is to put him in m empty tub with no water at first and give him q sponge bath. The next day half m inch may Do put in the tub first&and increased daily so slowly that tho child won't notice it,
 Association of Ideas
 But sometimes even that falls Then 1t Is not beyond all propriety to have him lifted Into tho tub when his father is in the wator or his mother or someone elso In the family he loves. Love Is tho key to everything.
 Children can Do cured of certain phobing this way, such nB fear or tho dark. \Again tho bathtub tae' LlCB mHy Uc ubBuI BuCH Wb CAVbtub tho door Of his bedrom n little moro each night until he Is ID dnrknos. But this sonse of ter- TOT about n dark room cannot al- wnys be discouraged thIS way Let something happen so he will bp happy in tho dask; by association of ideas associate the former bug" nboO with something very interest Ing or very Jolly. But Do very careful that no queer noiBoS CT startling effects como toward him out of the dark. T0lling n jolly story in tutor darkness is ono Bug' gestlon and thero are other ways. When he learns that darkness cons tnlnH only happiness ho will be' como very matt0r-Of-fact about it
 No talk about the dark should ever bo uttered in his honring.
 You cannot force q child out or c drend. If only accents it 6l' though he may not speak of it. You cannot punish him out of it any moro than you could Do whipped out Of e fear Of an alrplnne or n burglar. Tho whole trick depends on association of ideas and these ideas must como through Substl' tutGd interest and through people he loves, trusts and admirers. Real bravery IS born of intelligent kind. ness. Tho bully is tho result Of ridieul0 and wrong handling, The bully iB m unfortunate coward who is afraid to tell he is afraid