Volume 2

Practical child training : Book I-IV / by Ray C. Beery.

  • Beery, Ray C.
Date:
[1917]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical child training : Book I-IV / by Ray C. Beery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CRYING Crying is a privilege. Its most obvious use is as a signal of distress. A man or animal who had no asso- ciates would have little need to ery, because no one could respond to his appeal for protection or assistance. A secondary value in erying is that it occasionally furnishes relief to the nerves that have become over- wrought under distress. Many a one has longed ‘*To cover my head now And have a good ery.’’ It will be obvious, therefore, that in attempting to teach self-control in crying, we are not hoping for a Spartan fortitude in our children, such as will forever suppress the ery. On the other hand, we hope to eliminate the excesses that injure health, mar the dis- position, and annoy those who hear. CRYING OF A YOUNG CHILD Nobody ever cries without a cause. That cause may be either physiological or psychological. Among the physiological causes we may enumerate: physical pain due to mechanical injury as, for instance, a pin, a button or a fall to the floor; pains due to bad health, as indigestion, colic, earache, toothache, and to dis- comfort caused by hunger, thirst and sleepiness.
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