themselves are ashamed of it and not infrequently begin to
criticise the product of their own making--the formation of these
unpleasant bad habits. More than anything else, the spoiled child
needs a new environment, new parents, and a new life.

THE SPOILED BABY

Seek to find out if possible--and it usually is possible--just what he
is crying for. It may be for the pacifier, for the light, or to be
rocked, jolted, carried, taken up and rocked at night, or a host of
other trifles; and if he is immediately hushed on getting his soul's
desire--then we know he is "spoiled."

The unfortunate thing about it all is that the one who has indulged
and spoiled the baby usually does not possess the requisite nerve,
grit, and will power to carry out the necessary program for baby's
cure. And the pity of it all is that overindulgence in babyhood so
often means wrecked nerves and shattered happiness in later life. So,
fond, indulgent parents, do your offspring the very great kindness to
fight it out with them while they are young, even if it takes all
summer, and thus spare them neurasthenia, hysteria, and a host of
other evils in later life.

This sort of "spoiled baby crying" can be stopped only through stern
discipline--simply let the baby "cry it out." The first lesson may
require anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour and thirty minutes.
The second lesson requires a much shorter time, and, in normal babies
with a balanced nervous system, a third or fourth lesson is not
usually required.

THE CRY OF SERIOUS ILLNESS

The cry of the severely sick child is the saddest cry of all. The low
wail or moan strikes terror to the saddened mother-heart. It is often
moaned out when the child is ill with "summer complaint" or other
intestinal disturbances. Instant help must be secured, and, if medical
help is not obtainable, remember, with but one or two exceptions, you
are safe in carefully washing out the bowels, in applying external
heat and giving warmed, boiled water to drink.

Another cry which demands immediate attention, and the faithful
carrying out of the doctor's orders, is the hoarse, "throaty" cry
indicative of croup or bronchitis.

THE COLICKY CRY

Perhaps the greatest cause of the most crying during infancy, next to
that of over-indulgence, is ordinary colic which--

... manifests itself in every degree of disturbance from mere
peevishness and fretfulness to severe and intensely painful
attack