THUMB-SUCKING
Sir-The article on Thumb-sucking in a recent Listener would be amusing if it were not written by the Director of School Hygiene. He begins by saying that thumb-sucking is caused by inadequate diet or treatment and then after discussing the had effect this habit has on teeth says it is not easy to stop the habit once it is a fixture, Dr, Turbott has two remedies. The first one is to bind the child’s thumb with layers of sticky plaster and pieces of matchstick. (Imagine the dirt such an erection would accumulate.) The second method is to so arrange e cardboard cylinder round the child’s arm that the child cannot bend. his elbow. These methods are psychologically unsound. Slight thumb-sucking will not harm the child’s mouth. The bad thumb-sucker is the lonely child, the’ jealous child or otherwise unhappy child. and the remedv is
obvious.-
RHODA
LILLIE
(Otautau).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 248, 24 March 1944, Page 3
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149THUMB-SUCKING New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 248, 24 March 1944, Page 3
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