Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of parents, according to Dr. Isaac Newton Kugelmass, one of Manhattan's ablest pediatricians, who in ten years' practice accumulated a book full of explicit methods for generating and rearing able children. This he published last week as the first manual anywhere to deal with the child as a creature growing physically, emotionally and mentally from conception through adolescence...
...professors, lawyers and doctors breed more Mongolian idiots than do farmers because their mental life is more exhausting.' Very young parents "tend to produce plain citizens. The very old tend to propagate genius. The greater the disparity in age of parents, the more unusual the characteristics of the child-to-be." Best time for conception, says Dr. Kugelmass, "is immediately before or after the menstrual period. It is then coincident with the woman's most intense feelings of affection, which bring about a more vital fertilization...
...earlier a woman knows she is pregnant and can deal with her child-to-be, the better for him. Eighty per cent of a human being is perfected during the 40 weeks in the womb. From a fertilized ovum smaller than a pin head, the embryo multiplies 2,000 million times to become a 7-pound, 2O-inch baby at birth. It is during the first two months of that marvelous multiplication that malformations generally develop. Hence the pregnant woman must at that time take extraordinary care to avoid mental, emotional or physical shocks. She should drink a great deal...
...superior child grows fitfully. During the first two years he grows chiefly in length. The next four years he broadens out. He shoots up again during puberty (12 to 14 years), broadens again during adolescence. His body ripens unequally during those years. At 6, a person's brain is as big as it ever will...
While he grows, the child must learn to behave in a way that does not repress his instincts and abilities, yet does not annoy other human beings. Teaching the infant, child and adolescent such emotional and intellectual disciplines is the hardest job that a parent has. Dr. Kugelmass gives many a useful pointer in his manual. Dressing and undressing, he shows, "are difficult techniques for the young child. Each bit of raiment requires a special procedure. If the child is given the freedom of trial and error in the manipulation of his clothing and shoes, he will gradually learn...