Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1950 — Page 33

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As a Problem in Rearing of Young By DOUGLAS LARSEN:

Times Special Writer

- WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—The time has come, the doctor says, or guilty.

to stop scaring American parents

children and to let up dissecting

about how they are raising- their youth in the laboratory.

perts that bottle-fed babies will all turn out to be neurotics or maladjusted. Mothers who don’t have the urge to breast-feed their infants, as a result, feel ashamed

This feeling of guilt, Dr. Spock says, is much worse than bottle-

For practical purposes, the scientists now know enough about feeding. He says the chances are children’s diseases, proper diets, the most advanced types of recrea- that breast-feeding is somewhat

tion, proper school lighting, and the behavior patterns of youngsters.

Obviously basic research should continue in these fields. The big need right now ‘is. to start putting together these hitherto isolated chunks of information in some usable form so that parents and their youngsters can take advantage of it, relax and start enjoying life together. The doctor who says these things is Benjamin Spock, recognized as one of the nation's outstanding experts on children. His books: on common-sense methods of child rearing are the best sellers in the field. He has served on the staffs of the biggest children’s hospitals in the country and is presently associated with the Rochester Child He pioneered the effort to disprove the rigid-time-schedule, - stop-clock, rule-

‘book fad in raising children of a

‘dren

few years ago. Personality Development Dr. Spock . speaks as a chairman of the Mideentury White House Conference on Chiland Youth, to be held Dee 3-7. It is. Dr. Spock’s hope that the conference will focus atten tion on the ultimate goal of all child research--the development of healthy, good personalities. He

fears that American parents may

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have lost sight of this in the confusion of - the war and post-war years. = Dr. Spock put his finger on two basic problems of child rearing in America, the lack of tradition, and a. faul®™in the education of U. S. women. He explains the first this way: “In earlier, simple civilizations nobody worried much about how to raise children. Mothers learned how from their mothers and had plenty of practice helping raise brothers and" sisters. They did it automatically -and efficiently. In spite of some things they may nave been doing wrong the net result was a lot of normal adults.” Almost~a“Chore Today, he claims, American parents have been made so selfconscious about raising their childreti’it has almost become a chore, rather than a pleasure. He thinks better to make a few mis: and have some fun with vour children than get all excited about trying to do the perfect job About the only ones really en joving today's crop of youngsters he says, are the country's grandparents, ; He cites the current theory being spread dround by some ex-

takes

better for kids, but there are abcolutely no positive scientific facts to prove it. It's nothing for any prospective mother to get owverwrought about. Blame on System Discussing the increasingly ser-

ious problem of working mothers. |

Dr. Spock lays part of the blame on America's education system. “Our education tells girls that they've got to be career women, making their great contribution outside of the home, to really count today,” he explains. “Love, marriage and motherhood is a sort of second-best. This is a dangerously false philosophy.” BN For the mothers of young children who are forced to work outside, the only permanent answer is an _economic system which doesn’t push them to this expedient, he says. : Dr. Spock is not quite as upset about the seriousness of the effect of the war and post-war condi-

tions in the U. S., which dre making today’s growing-up process pretty difficult, as a lot of the

country’s social workers seem: to

be. On the matter of today's chii-

dren being forced to adjust to a he thinks the schools and other organizations can help youth if they =~'eve distress i

revolution in race relations,

don't get help—or hindrance—at home. “Between the ages of 6 and adolescence, children are most likely to look for rules. on such things as race relations outside the home. This is when the schools or Boy Scouts can help most in adjusting today’s youngsters in any new conditions they face in this respect,” he Says. Dr. Spock agrees that not much good can come from the new mobility of the American’ family {which is revealed in a series of {reports prepared for *he White House conference

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Unless a move is going to pro (duce a better place to live and a better for "the children, he advises families to think before pulling up stakes on some whim and hauling the kids across the country. In the last analysis of all of today's grave problems facing parents and vouth, he says there is one basic rule to remember: “Two good people who Ileve each other and their kids can’t help but produce good adults.”

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