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- From: floom@cco.caltech.edu (Laura E. Floom)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: 7 mo old pulling hair
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 16:54:28 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- dlin@weber.ucsd.edu (Diane Lin) writes:
-
- >Aside from the obvious question of what one does with a baby who is
- >bald and therefore doesn't have any hair to pull :-), I have a more
- >serious concern about Judy's advice. If I understand the advice
- >correctly, Judy advocates giving the baby a taste of his/her own
- >medicine, in measured doses. The person who originally posted about
- >this problem has a 7-month old baby. I seriously doubt that babies
- >that young understand anything about cause and effect, or
- >consequences, or most importantly, empathy. Rather, I think the
- >message that is received is quite isolated: "hey, why is Mom hurting me?"
- >This advice probably would work with a toddler, though the fact that
- >Erin persists in playing this "game" raises questions about its
- >effectiveness as a teaching tool.
-
- I see another problem with this approach. When Jeffrey pulled my hair, it
- really hurt! There is no way I would want to hurt him at the same level. From
- Judy's original post, I gather, she too, didnt pull Erin's hair anywhere as
- hard as Erin pulled Judy's. So what did she teach? That is hurts a little bit?
- That it hardly hurts at all? Certainly not that it really hurts! By doing this
- sort of thing, you may trivialize the whole situation, and even turn it into a
- 'fun' game.
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- Laura Floom
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