Karen said,
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Actually, it has been attributed to child psychologist Lee Salk, PhD,
brother of Jonas Salk of the polio vaccine. I once had the privilege to
interview Dr. Lee Salk for the newsletter DoubleTalk, which I published
for
more than a decade many years ago.
Lee Salk was truly a gentle man and he is also quoted as saying, "There's
no
harm in a child crying: the harm is done only if his cries aren't
answered.
...If you ignore a baby's signal for help, you don't teach him
independence... What you teach him is that no other human being will take
care of his needs.">>
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Ahhh -- thanks, Karen -- that makes far more sense. Couldn't figure out
what the Salk of the polio vaccine would be doing worrying about children
crying.... But Lee Salk -- big difference.
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA -- who actually was a "polio pioneer" --
one of the 1,800,000 school children who were randomized to receive
either
the vaccine or the placebo. Three injections, and after the third one,
as
a reward, we received a dixie cup of ice cream to eat with a little
wooden
spoon. I was living in the house I'm living in today when that happened
-- though many houses, cities, and a lot of years have separated the two.
For what it is worth, my mother thinks I received the placebo.
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