OUR CHILDREN
Patri, Angelo
Our Children By Angelo Patri THE BEGINNING of any task is highly important. The end is set in the beginning. A fine start promises a fine ending, a fine accomplishment that will repay the hard...
...Make this beginning of discipline carry in itself the end you would like to achieve, an understanding, well-disciplined child...
...The first time a mother says No to a child is an important beginning...
...The health of a baby depends upon his mother's diet, her general well-being...
...its, behavior, attitudes, are maintained...
...When the baby arrives his care and training must be started in the way he should go for good health, correct behavior, intelligent attitudes...
...Don't coax, don't threaten...
...Just say No and at once offer an acceptable way in its stead...
...That No must mean just what it says, No...
...That makes a bad beginning...
...Sick and underfed mothers cannot give their children the start in life that sound bodies and sound minds demand...
...Children take on the qualities, that is the health and the character traits of their parents...
...The First Time Counts Every first experience a child has is a beginning...
...If she takes it as a matter of course, with no show of interest, allowing the child to feel that his eating or not eating is his personal affair and concerns him alonej—he will not form incorrect eating habits...
...Well-Planned Schedule If he is fed, changed, rested, exercised, on a well-planned schedule, he is started on the road toward health...
...When a baby is laid gently in his crib, he should be allowed to stay there peacefully until he is fed...
...As the child grows his schedule expands but the underlying principles of sound practice in health hab...
...And his mother has laid a foundation for future contentment in the child and in her household...
...A fine start promises a fine ending, a fine accomplishment that will repay the hard work that went into that good beginning...
...Figs do not grow on thistles...
...The rearing of a child should begin with the selection of his parents...
...Take care of the beginnings and the etids will never worry you...
...Nobody can claim that ariy of this is easy or that it is accomplished without struggle, but we all know that a good beginning, followed by good beginnings in each phase of the child's growth, is certain to lead to success...
...The first time he refuses his meal is an experience that will influence his behavior for a long time to come, according to the effect his refusal has on him and on his mother...
...There is no need to dramatize it, make a show of force, to yell and stamp and carry on excitedly...
...The beginnings must be perfect if the ends are to be so...
Vol. 7 • December 1943 • No. 52
