THE DISSIPATED BABY.
The baby of to-day i 3 too much entertaineoV, according to Dr. Violet Plummer, who gave a lecture to the School for Mothers in Adelaido last week, writes tho Sydney correspondent of the Auckland 'Herald." She said that there was too much playing with very young children, too much notice taken of them. In a largo family no one had time for this, but where there was only the one child it was kept in a constant ferment of excitement, as father, mother, and relatives vied with each other in "amusing baby." "With one and another the child is worked up to the highest possible pitch," she said. "Much of tho nervous trouble of Inter life is founded in this way, and much immediate ill-health is due to dandling and dancing, and excitement. A child which is not doing well at home will sometimes thrive and grow on the very snmo food if it is sent to a nursing home, whero it is attended to, but not entertained, and is allowed to develop in peace."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1516, 12 August 1912, Page 3
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178THE DISSIPATED BABY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1516, 12 August 1912, Page 3
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