A mother should not kiss and cuddle her baby, should turn a deaf ear when he cries, should feed and tend him with cold regularity. So ran the advice most pediatricians gave parents a few years ago. But many of these "scientific," timetable children have grown up neurotic, unhappy. So the doctors have returned to Nature: they now believe in old-fashioned mother love and intelligent laissez faire.
Leader of this reaction is Dr. Charles Anderson Aldrich of Northwestern University Medical School, a modest, kindly man who turned to pediatrics after his three children broke...
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