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Fashions in child training are as extreme, and change almost as much, as women's hats. In the last two decades there has been a complete revolution in the nursery and playroom. In the Journal of Pediatrics, Dr. Celia B. Stendler of the University of Illinois' College of Education describes it: "From an era where the mother was taught that the child must have his physical wants cared for and then be left alone, must be fed on a rigid schedule, must learn to cry it out, must be toilet-trained early and must not be spoiled...
Mother Knows Best. Checking the back files of magazines (Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion and Good Housekeeping), Dr. Stendler found that in 1890 there were about as many articles telling mothers how to bring up their children as there are nowadays. The volume of advice stayed fairly constant through all -the intervening years. But the "tone changed...
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