Jan Barger wrote:

Rachel said:  In a book of quotes collected by Lynn Moen and a co-author
whose name I can't remember, this is attributed to Linus Pauling.  I would
use a Nobel laureate to name-drop with when using the quote any day of the
week.

Jan's reply:  And I had heard somewhere it was Dr. Salk (of the Salk polio
vaccine).

 

Lee now:  Jan - I was wondering if it was the author of:  How to Raise a
Human Being.  I can't remember his first name (it was at least 30 years ago)
but do remember that he is the brother of Dr. Salk (of the Salk polio
vaccine).  The author Salk brother had a philosophy very much in tune with
La Leche League's and attachment parenting.  One chapter in that book had a
profound effect on me; it had to do with the difference between a habit and
a need.  Some of his thoughts were that children have needs - the more and
faster they are met, the sooner they diminish; OTOH, habits become more
entrenched the more they are repeated.  For example, a child who needs to be
held a lot benefits from having that need (not a habit) met so that it
decreases with time.  I'm not remembering any of his examples for a habit.
It might have been something like:  the more times a child performed a feat
in a certain way, the harder it would be to do it any other way.  For
example, a child who holds a spoon a certain way would find it harder to
change that habit, the longer he did it that way.  Does anyone else remember
that book?

Warm regards,

Lee Galasso, MS, LLLL, IBCLC, RLC

Westchester County in NYS, USA

"Children Are Born with the Need to Breastfeed"

 


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