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Affection For Children Predominates: The influence of the culture on child development is seen most clearly in studies of primitive societies that have differing child-care practices (51, 1947; 104, 1953). In some societies, affection for children predominates; in others, children experience indifference and other "anxiety-provoking" treatment. In one tribe, for example, the baby is a plaything, passed around from one person to another.
Affection should be combined with understanding and order. Parents who have this attitude realize that certain limits or bounds have a positive value in providing a stable background for growth. They maintain a certain firmness but do not dominate or supervise excessively. They encourage children to explore and experiment without too much supervision or criticism. They are judiciously permissive,him to follow in his father's footsteps. When the new baby comes, it is the older child who is likely to feel displaced in his parents' affection.
Children are strongly affected by people's attitudes toward them. Whether physically perfect or deformed, healthy or sickly, well-spoken or incoherent, whether their IQ is 50 or 70 or 150, exceptional children have the same basic needs for affection, acceptance, and approval as do other children. They can be comfortable and secure only when they know they are wanted and loved; they are uneasy and crushed when the}' experience, or think they experience, rejecting coldness. This lack of social acceptance resulting from their physical, intellectual, or emotional limitations is often more difficult to cope with than the original handicap (59,1950).
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