THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 9, 1941. Bringing Up Father
BY GOLLY-THAT NERVE TONIC HASN'T ANYMORE EFFECT ON ME - I'M AS WEAK AS A KITTEN- BUT I MUSIN'T LET THE FOLKS KNOW-1 MWST. KEEP UP THE BLUFF-
MY - DADDY- JUST LOOK
AT YOUR MUSCLES-
DAUGHTER-I
FEEL LIKE A
KID-AN' I'M STRONG AS
A BULLY.
WELL IF YOU'RE
THAT STRONG- GO RIGHT IN AND CARRY SOME
FURNITURE
UPSTAIRS-
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↑ SHOULD HAVE LEFT THE BULL OUT OF IT-
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Mothers often put this question to me. "As Tommy is now thir- teen months old, and as he is a big, helty baby, should be not be en- couraged to walk?"
Well, that's a difficult question to answer, because there are 30 many possibilities,
I am always trying to preach the gospel of "Dan't worry," especially to the younger mothers among my
readers.
Think for a moment. How can you compare Mary A., who was a premature baby, difficult to feed,
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rather timid and fretty, with Willic B, who comes of a robust stock and who has never given his nother a single day's anxiety?
It just can't be done. To every child there is an index, and this is arrived at after taking into account matters of sex, build, age, tempera- ment, and reaction to ordinary - conditions of life.
With regard particularly to the movement of the baby, it is known that on the average the infant be- gins 10
at about eight crawl months.
But because a baby crawls until
he or she is, say, fourteen mon hs. there is no indication that thing is wrong.
any-
Some babies do not crawl at all, and take to their feet in the early part of their second year, after a few preliminary trials.
Others, again, go on crawling and will not respond to the par-
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ental encouragement to risk walk- ing to a table three yards off to get a reward of much-appreciated chocolate.
There is nothing in such cases to show the slightest evidence of disease or abnormally.
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No. The book or other ob- ject has been leat to you by the owner because he has formed good opinion of your sense of rés- ponsability. It is a dental of that lend it sense of responsibility to again to another. If you are anx ious to lend the book or other object to a friend the owner's per- mission should first be sought, Remember it is not yours to dis pose of in any way.
Q.
When I have been invited out to tea or jo some other meal at a private house am I justified in bringing with me Someone who wishes to meet my host or hos- tess?
A. No. The invitation has been extended only to those per-
It is an sons specifically named. infringement
to of hospitality
Even bring a stranger with you.
to bring a mutual friend, your children or some relative unless
they have been specially mention- ed, is incorrect when visiting on an invitation,
Should there be some person or to persons however who wish meet your host and hostess social- ly for the first time on this occa- sion you should either communi- cate with your hostess in time and ask her permission to bring the additional person or persons or else pay a formal call with the strangers on another occasion.
Q. How long should one stay when paying a social visit in the afternoon?
A. A delicate sense of time is As a very important social asset. someone has said a good rule to go by is to aim at being regretted for going rather than to be re- gretted for staying. To out-stay 'ane's welcome is to run the risk of being called a bore. There are some people who can never, tear themselves away from wherever they find themselves and stay on to the "bitter end." Another rule to remember is that visitors "ar- and departing `re- riving excite Pieve,"
Do not be so insensitive as to One very vital point, to bear in rush away when the conversation mind is that a 'baby does not noris at its keenest or break up a mally try to crawl in any way be-party that is in full swing unless you hate urgent reasons for do- tween the ages of six and eighting so (and then do so as unob- trusively as possible) on the months, and
the crawl of eight other hand to not stay anywhere months is on all fours and quite a minute after the fun or the con- different from that of the earlier versation have begun to drag→→ you will take your leave graceful- stages.
ly before this point has been I advise mothers to encourage, reached if you will be a social success. Actually, no definite But not to force in matters of rule can be laid down regarding crawling and walking; leave the when one should take one's leave decision to the child,' He is bound on a social occasion; a kind of to decide when theppropriate abeth sense is required in order to moment has arrived at which he time oneself perfectly. To go too can stand upright and move on soon tan bo ar il-mannered: as. I his two legs.
going too late.
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