Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yourself on his level. (Mother sat at table with Junior...
...Approve what he does well. (Junior grasped cup; mother nodded, smiled...
...particularly difficult or disliked undertaking, give more help than is needed. (Mother helped Junior lift...
...Give increasing help, more specific directions. (Mother firmly showed Junior how to pick up cup, put it to his lips...
Among the departments in Cornell University's College of Home Economics, one is concerned exclusively with family life. A professor in this department is tiny, motherly Mrs. Ethel B. Waring. Last week Professor Waring gave U. S. mothers a formula, in nine neat points, to solve a baffling problem: how to get Junior to drink his orange juice (or eat his spinach). It took Mrs. Waring 15 years to develop her formula. In the college's laboratory nursery school, she one day decided to take sound movies (unobserved) of her tots' behavior. She found the movies illuminating...