MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW.

Shannon News, 10 December 1929, Page 4

MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW.

It Is 4 curious fact that boys are-al-most invariably more backward than girls in commencing to talk, .-and that only children are more backward than children who have several brothers and sisters.

A child of three who only says a ~few words, need not cause his mother #ry much anxiety, as long as he walks well, and is obviously intelligent in other ways. These two things arc. far more important than the actual. talking at this age.

Enlarged tonsils and adenoids often make children backward. You know the look of a child who is obviously suffering from adenoids. The child always has his mouth half open, and rather a vacant expression. He is slow to understand what is said to him, and generally stupid. The reason for this is, of course, that the adenoids are blocking up the back of the no.se passage, so that the child is forced to breathe through his mouth. The complete removal of tonsils and adenoids often w r orks wonders for an apparently .backward child.