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PAGE SIXTEEN
Parent Problems
By GABY CLEVELAND MYERS
Centra) Pram Feature WrtMv
"IF you eat that now you
won't want anything for din-j
ner.” or words to that effect, I
have heard from the earliest
time I can remember. But I can
not remember the time wnen
eating food realy diminished
my appetite at regular meal
time. It looks as if I was bom
with a good appetite, which I
have never lost. It's not appetite
but weight I need to watch.
And I’ve seen other hungry
children, especially on coming
home from school, whose en
joyment of a snack didn't harm
their dinner appetite.
But judging trom direct ob
servations of many growing
children under five or six over
seme years and from remarks
I have heard and letters I have
read from mothers, I infer that
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CITY OF COVINGTON
Statement of Receipt! for Month Ending
DECEMBER 31, 1948
City Tax, 1948 $ 3,969.85
City Tax, 1947 - «
Citv Tax, 1946 14 - 02
Citv Tax. 1945 6
City Tax, 1944 <-31
Interest 130.9/
Electric Collections 14,587.72
Water Collections 2,676.21
Material Collections 463.35
Deposits 140.47
Withholding Tax 183.10
Rent 18.00
Hospitalization Insurance 0.00
Special Police 10.00
Cemetery Lot 100.00
Paving Liens 355.20
Police Fines 472.80
Business licenses 457.50
Cemetery Upkeep 23.75
$23,628.93
Statement of Disbursement* for Month Ending
DECEMBER 31, 1948
Mayor’s Salary $ 300.00
Councilmen’s Salaries 600.00
Clerk’s Salaries 675.00
Recorder’s Salary 15.00
Election 20.00
Tax Collection Bond Account 1,984.92
Office Supplies & Printing 21.26
Office Incidentals 70.73
Police Salaries 945.00
Police Maint. of Prisoners 8.60
Police Incidentals 22.85
Police—For City Jail 54.00
Fire Department Wages 976.00
Fire Department Incidentals 26.38
Sanitary W’ages 642.98
Sanitary Incidentals 25.64
Cemetery W’ages 144.40
Cemetery Incidentals 5.05
Water Department Salaries 1,107.57
W’ater Shed 432.75
Water Supplies 4,455.31
W’ater Department Incidentals 195.84
W’ater Collections 2,676.21
Electric ^Department Salaries 1,025.20
Electric Department Supplies 4.598.26
Electric Power 4,701.64
Electric Incidentals 123.78
Street Department W’ages 1,104.30
Street Maintenance 485.38
Parks 50.00
Librarian 10.00
Surety Bond 50.00
Burglary Ins. 50.00
Public Charity 5.47
Deposit Refunds 64.19
Tank Supplies 434.75
Public Health 96.71
Auditing 150.00
Hospitalization Ins. 41.20
1 Mounted Fire Extinguisher 108.00
Withholdings 552.20
$29,056^57
CONSOLIDATED CASH STATEMENT
Cash on Hand $ 9.233.48
Receipts to Date 23.628.93 $32,862.41
Expenditures to Date 29.056.57
Cash on Hand This Date $ 8,805.84
Our Advertiser* Are Assured Os Results)
a great many children don't eat
hearty meals because they have
eaten between meals. Only last
summer while three of our
grandchildren were with us, I
noticed on several occasions
that when the older ones, 6 and
4. ate without enthusiasm or
ate but little at the evening
meal, a question from their
mother revealed that they had
had something to eat at tne
neighbor's home that afternoon.
Now what children get between
meals is usually highly concen
trated food, as candies, cookies,
cakes, or bread and jam.
Worst Problem
No matter how hard you try
to keep your child from eating
between meals you can't easily
get your neighbors to cooperate.
It's often a worse problem witn
grandparents who live near.
In the first place your neigh
bors may not have given any
thought to the desirability of
not having their young children
“piece” between meals, or these
neighbors may not have the
heart to say ‘No’ to the child
when he begs for food. Prope'-
ly, they do not want their chil
dren to enjoy food between
meals in the presence of their
playmates without providing the
playmates with the same Kind
cf food. These parents might
like to to tell their children to
share at such times but the fact
usually is that their own chil
dren don’t give up anything at
all. The parents just serve more
food.
Several Playmate*
A certain mother writes to
know what she could do in this
type of case: When she gives to
her tot, three, some bread and
jam, there are several of his
playmates standing around ex
pecting some bread and jam
too; or her child goes out with
a “piece” and comes back beg
ging for a “piece” for each cf
more hungry children outside.
This mother was thinking of the
rconvemence and eost and not
>f the wishes of the other moto
rs represented by these chil
dren.
As I wrote this mother, if
she was sure she whshed to con
tinue giving her tot “pieces” be
tween meals she might consider
so setting the stage that h®r
child would be indoors alone at
such times. But this would in
volve more regulation than
seme parents would desire. The
trend among some parents seem
to be to give the child what he
Iwants right away when he
wants it, when he is two months
old, two years old or ten.
You can easily see that y?ar
by year, at the present rate,
there will be more and more
mothers giving “pieces” to their
own children or giving them
“candy” money and that, there
fore, it will grow harder year
by year to hold your own tot to
eating only at mealtime.
No use to tell your child not
to accept food away from home.
That s too hard for him to obey,
Just try to make the most of the
matter.
Some good results might ac
crue from discussing such prob
lems m mothers' clubs and
Pl As. (My bulletins, “Eating
Problems,” and “Your Child and
His Playmates, may be had in
a stamped envelope.)
THE daydreaming child may
I be a constant trial to his moth
er at home and his teacher at
school. Now dreams by day,
while the person is, presumably,
! awake, can be very useful.
Great geniuses in various
fields do a lot of daydreaming
and if they didn’t the wonl
| would be poorer in many ways.
However, some of the world’s
geniuses have been able to do
, their daydreaming at such
I times as not to interfere with
other persons.
If you are very sure your
। child is a genius, you might af
ford not to let yourself grow up
set over his daydreaming. But
then again you might be able
to guide him so skillfully that
he would learn to pay attention,
usually, to matters at hand,
such as in the home or school.
There is no conclusive proof
that any genius has to day
dream so as to be a nuisance
to his fellow's, or to do absurd
things in their presence. Any
way, some parents without ob
jective evidence supposes they
have a genius when they have
• not.
Not Very Happy
The mother who wrote the
following gives no convincing
evidence that her child is a
genius. Obviously, he teste the
patience of his mother and
teacher, and pretty surely he
is not a very happy person.
“Dear Dr. Myers: 1 have a
six-year-old boy, who is healthy,
happy and very active, but is
very absent-minded. I have
sent him to his room to change
his shoes and he will be com
pletely undressed before he
realizes that all he had to was
to remove hi s shoes. I have
sent him to the bathroom to
wash and he will stand in there
with no idea of what he is to
no. Regardless of what he is
doing, his mind is on otner
things.
“He has had to bring his
u ork book home to complete
work he should have done at
school. He never walks, always
on the run. He loves to -ring
and sings in the childrens
choir at school.”
About in this fashion, 1
wrote the mother. Perhaps this
lad gains considerable satisfac
tion from your concern over his
excessive daydreaming. No
doubt, he has heard you de
scribe to your friends some of
his odd doings and has supposed
they indicate something to be
proud of. Quit talking about
the matter.
Always before you send him
on an errand or give him a
simple command to carry out,
be sure you first have his com
plete attention before he starts
to carry it out.
Assign him one or two reg
ular jobs at home on which
you always can easily check.
If he does not do the job
promptly and regularly, set a
penalty, such as requiring him
to sit in a chair without amuse
ment for exactly 25 minutes. If
he seems to enjoy this, have
him stand instead of sitting. For
a few minutes daily read him
several sentences of simple mat
ter and have him tell you in
a few words the gist of what
you have read. Also practice
him on carrying out a few com
mands with several items, as,
“Close the door, take this book
to the next room and then bring
me my glasses." 1 am enclosing
my bulletins, “The Child Who
Does Not Concentrate,” “The
Nervous Child,” and “How
To Teach Child To Help at Home”
(which anybody else may have
in a stamped envelope). Plea,e
study them.
Find wavs to calm him down,
beginning on yourself. He needs
more play with other children
I of his age. Daydreaming hardly
thrives in the rougi’ ” , H-tumble
] of the playground.
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