Word: baruchism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dorothy W. Baruch has had both amateur and professional experience in raising children. The wife of a Los Angeles contractor, she brought up two of her own, Herbert, now 18, and Nancy, 15. She is also director of a nursery school at Broadoaks School of Education, Whittier College in California. While she raised her children, 107-lb. Mrs. Baruch got three college degrees, taught at Broadoaks, wrote 13 children's books (her latest: a Pinocchio based on Walt Disney' s forthcoming movie), scribbled verse, traveled abroad, swam, rode and played tennis...
This week Mrs. Baruch published a book (Parents and Teachers Go to School -Scott, Foresman & Co., $3) for parents and teachers, reporting what she had learned as amateur and professional, bumbling manifesto, her book sticks to specific cases, tells in detail how her nursery school straightened out many a little boy and girl, many a mother and father...
...Baruch's thesis is that most children's troubles arise from their mothers' and fathers' worries. Children, she believes, always sense such worries, feel insecure themselves. When a mother worries because her children disobey, sulk or fight, Mrs. Baruch brings her to school, lets her observe other children and find out that disobedience, sulking, fighting are normal childish behavior. Result: The mother goes home feeling more tolerant toward herself and children, more serene...
Some of Mrs. Baruch's tips to parents...
...TIME herewith sets right a misconception which Mr. Baruch has been trying to clarify for 25 years. The Price Fixing Committee of the War Industries Board, which fixed prices on such commodities as aluminum, concrete, cotton fabrics, was appointed by and responsible to the U. S. President. Mr. Baruch, while Chairman of the War Industries Board, was only an ex-officio member of the Price Fixing Committee, and was, by Presidential instruction, "governed by the advice" of the committee "in the determination of prices...