People have to know what they are looking for to join the dots. This is
completely unrelated to tongue tie but is an example of "you only see what
you are looking for."
I've been doing some work on how children learn about infant feeding. This
interest arose out of my study of long-term breastfeeding in which mothers
commonly described how their children would play at breastfeeding with
dolls. I went looking to see if I could find reports elsewhere of children
playing breastfeeding. There was the fabulous work of Donald Thomson in
Australia but really nothing else. I tracked down a couple of
anthropologists who had studied children's play (including doll play) in
Africa. Both had worked for 20-30 yrs at this. Both said that the had NEVER
seen a child breastfeeding a doll. One researcher however was interested in
the question and in Nov this year asked some questions about it when he
visited Morocco. What he found....well his informant told him that girls
play breastfeeding all the time. It's very common. Mothers like to see their
girls doing it because they know it will be useful to them later AND to my
enjoyment, they also play relactation games (mother of the baby is ill or
had died, we must feed her).
So, I got the answer I expected, the very experienced anthropologist learnt
something. It's easy not to see connections.
Karleen Gribble
Australia


>
> By the way-- a couple of years ago I contacted a speech therapist at a
local
> elementary school to find out how often she saw problems related to
> tongue-tie.  She told me "never."  I was shocked; this is not what I was
> expecting to hear. So many times, like with the mom and baby above, I've
> noticed mild speech lisps with a parent of the baby, or they can tell me
> which family member "talks funny."  Yet NONE of these are being related to
> tongue-tie?  We have a LOT of education to do with the speech folks as
well,
> who are in a position to identify those ties have been overlooked.
>
> ~Lisa Marasco
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