OUR CHILDREN
Patri, Angelo
Our Children By Angelo Patri THE child won't eat vegetables, or he won't drink milk, or he won't come in when he is called, or he won't go to church. He just won't. How can I get him, or her, to...
...Between times ignore the very mention of food...
...Here as in all child training, one has to use common sense...
...That is the time the wise mother sets herself to the task of training the child the right way...
...There is a first time when a child refuses his milk, vegetables, whatever it happens to be...
...How can I get him, or her, to do what is wanted ? Normal children can be trained to eating and sleeping habits by keeping strictly to the schedule...
...If you are afraid call the doctor...
...But, if a child won't eat, won't sleep on time, won't do what his mother knows is good for him, she had better ask, "Why not...
...If it is refused again put the milk aside...
...Emergencies rise in the best regulated schedule...
...First Refusal Important Habits have their beginnings in a first act...
...Don't tell him stories, don't let him have a toy, don't scold, remove the food, go about your business, and let him get hungry for next mealtime...
...If all the children who turned their heads away from their milk bottle had been allowed to keep on doing so, the cemeteries would be full and the schools empty...
...Get a fresh clean bottle for the baby and try again...
...He is to eat his meals without fuss, as they come, on time...
...There is a first time when he refuses to take his nap, go to bed at bedtime, and the rest of the wilful manifestations of childhood...
...It is because mothers insisted that children eat on time, sleep on time, do what they ought to do when they ought to do it, that we have a healthy younger generation...
...Look at his tongue, feel his abdomen, take his temperature...
...Now examine the child...
...Taste the milk, taste and smell all food that is being refused...
...Sickness and death and the unexpected enter every household...
...When a child won't eat for me, whose fault is it...
...His services will be worth what they cost to you and the child in the setting" of eating habits for years to come...
...Do the same with the older one...
...If you find anything wrong call the doctor and do not ask the child to take his dinner...
...One does what one must...
...Missed Meal Not Serious Don't worry about children who are in good health because they skip a meal...
...It won't hurt a child to go without a few meals...
...Our children are more likely . to be over than underfed...
Vol. 8 • July 1944 • No. 28
