Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Married at 17 to her cousin, an engineer, Alexandra Kollontay bore one child, now an electrical engineer in Sweden. She then went alone to Zurich, hotbed of radicalism. Returning to Russia she founded the first working women's club at St. Petersburg in 1907, wrote The Social Basis of the Woman Question. Her next book was the monumental, 600-page Motherhood and Society, points from this last being later embodied into the laws of Norway. She speaks 15 languages, writes warm novel ettes which prudes have called "too realistic." Present...
...Spankers had a new and highly creditable ally-Garry Cleveland Myers, head of the Division of Parental Education, Cleveland College, Western Reserve University. In a book which is calculated to show parents how to behave toward their offspring,* Spanker Myers devotes a chapter to the proper method of child castigation. Excerpts...
Perhaps 90% of all punishment by parents is injudicious. . . . I believe in punishment, not as a last resort, but as a part of a very deliberate program with the child, punishment which is planned ahead for days and weeks before it is to be applied. . . . Is it not better that a little child should have a good burning spank than that his body should be burned up by a conflagration or that he should be ruined for a lifetime by pulling down upon his head a pot of boiling liquid...
Recommended to potential Spankers are these precepts: Don't scold or pray over the child, or nag with small, ineffectual, repeated chastisements. Don't ridicule, frighten, punish after school years; never in the presence of others after the age of three. Punish immediately and impressively after an offense...
...Conference on child health and protection; in Washington. Business: survey report of President Hoover's 1929 commission of experts...