Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — Training the Modern Child [ARTICLE]

Training the Modern Child

Two Women of a Past Generation Discuss With Some Regret the Present Methods. A mother and a mother-in-law living in the sfvme house with their respective married son and daughter were, contrary to all generally received ideas of such relationship, the best of friends. They sat one evening, after the departure of the young people to the theater, exchanging views upon the difference between old and present-day practises in the bringing ap of children. “Alice Just tumbles the baby into Ms crib,” said the maternal grandMother, "shuts the door upon him and leaves him to go to sleep when he gets tired of lying awake. She says aha has little enough time for getting ready to go out even then. I always counted upon singing my babies to sleep aad enjoyed it as much as they Aid. My daughter sings a beautiful ttttle luuaby in the parlor to her gaarts sometimes, but her baby has MW heard it " “I think my son’s devotion to me.” said the other grandparent, “began when his baby eyes used to devour ms with love while I rocked him to

sleep in my arms. I used to look forward to that hour As a recompense for the trials of the tiring day. The present day mothers do not teach the little ones a prayer and haven’t time to hear them say it. If they learn one. As for rocking a baby In a cradle you would think It was a crime the way the suggestion Is received. t They say It injures the brain, as though Shakespeare and the greatest minds the world ever has known weren’t rocked In cradles.” "Maybe the dearth of cradles explains the dearth of geniuses In these latter days," laughed the other old lady. “There are not as many surely as In the days of lullabies and cradles.”