Evening star., 1937-01-25
Ruby Strawberries Prove Effective Antidote for Gloomy Se
When the
Emergency
Call Sounds
Well = Trained Chill
dren Will Weather
Experience.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

Bx ANGELO fAxh1s
EMERGENCIES occur in every
- household. A message comes In
the night. Mother must pack her bag
and 60. Somebody has to 60 to the
hospital and again mother must drop
the usual routine of duty and stay by
the ailing one. Sudden calls, troubles
of different kinds come to us all, and
when they do everything else Is set
aside.
During these times the first ques-
ton mother asks Is: What Is to be
done about the children?" She has
been so careful about their routine OF
diet, health habits. bedtimes and rest
and play. Every hour Of their days
has been watched and guarded, and
now she must leave them and what
will happen then?
Things will not run as smoothly
as usual. The person who takes
charge for the time being will not
be mother. She will do things dif-
ferently. She may give the children
their baths, but her touch will be q
different touch, her ways will be dif-
ferent and probably irritating. If she
is out Of practice she may flap the
corner Of the washrag and that Is
about the worst thing that q long
suffering child can stand. He hates
q Tapping washrag. Or she may get
soap in his eyes, or twist his ears
when she Is wiping them; or forget
salt in his cereal, or want him to
wear a bib when he has always used
q napkin.
And she may lose patience with the
ways of these children and say: I
don't care what you've done before.
You Just 60 ahead and do what I tell
you now. When your mother comes
back you can do what she says. Now
you'll have to do what say. I'm
not your mother"
Well do the children know she is
not their mother. They feel like lost
sheep. Now this may sound and seem
very hard on the children. In some
ways it is, but there are compensa-
tions. If the person left In charge is
kind, has some common sense, moth
ing will happen that will hurt the
children. They will get an experience
that will do them good. They will
learn to adjust themselves to another
sort Of routine. They will learn to
appreciate their own mother and their
own home atmosphere a little more.
To learn how well of you are, how
fine your own people are, you have
to be separated from them occasion
ally.
Then don't be frightened when the
emergency comes and the children
have to face new situation. II they
have been well trained, the training
will hold. A break In the routine,
especially when 1t IS q clean break
and new beginning, brightens their
wits and gives them q new interest
in life. They have great fun trying
out their wiles on the newcomer.
The experience Is really harder on
her than on the children.
The mother who has to leave the
children for brief time can do 50
with a cheerful spirit If she thinks Of
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valuable for children. New adjust
ments keep them alert and growing.
They will be glad to see their mother
again and glad to get back into the
familiar ways. Sound training will
hold over an emergency and the chill
dren have a chance to live on their
own for q time. They need that ex-
perience.
Mr.. Patri has prepared q leafet
entitled 1.-THE Shy Child" in which
he tells parents how to help children
overcome shyness and fear. Send for
it, addressing your request to Mr..
Angelo Patri, Child Psychology De-
partment Of this paper. Inclose .
self addressed, stamped (s-cent) en-
velope.
tcopyrisht. 1879