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Dr. Dafoe's Exclusive Rules for Your Baby's Health
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doors even in the coldest weather. Dr. Dafoe tells how shocked people were to see them lying on an open porch in weather 27 degrees below zero with the snow falling. Their carriages have waterproof hoods which completely protect them. The}' also play outdoors in arctics and their bright hooded "Hudson Bay suits" in freezing weather.
However, if you want to follow this bold example, you need a few warnings. When it's freezing, the Quints' faces are always coated with ointment to prevent frostbites and if your children play outdoors for long periods in winter, see that they keep their mittens on. Let them come in to warm up every half hour or so, just as the Quints do in the little room with a piping hot stove, which is adjacent to their playground. Also, remember the climate of Callander is very dry. Too much cold, moist weather such as is experienced in Chicago and our Lake States is bad for children. And most New York child specialists advise against allowing city children to play outdoors on windy days, because so much germ-laden dust is in deadly circulation.
Even more common than sleeping problems are eating problems. Does one of your children pick at his food, say no to his vegetables, demand what isn't on the table? And do you fuss and worry about it and watch his thin little arms and legs miserably?
1A/HY do the Quints eat everything that ** is given to them? Perhaps this statement of Dr. Dafoe's explains it. "If Emilie, for instance," he says, "doesn't want a dish that is put in front of her, the nurse makes no great fuss about it. She can have her dessert and all the milk she wants. But she can have nothing else until the next regular meal time. She soon learns that when she doesn't finish her meal she gets hungry. Just a little determination on the mother's part and the child can be taught not only to eat everything but to like everything."
The vegetable problem is often developed when the child first eats this type of food. Their nurses have taught the Quints to like vegetables by that finest-ofall-methods in teaching babies — suggestion.
They were about six months old. The nurse's face above the crib would smile. She'd smack her lips and say, "bon — bon," "good — good" when she'd offer a bit of finely-mashed spinach or carrots or string beans to Yvonne or Cecile or one of the others. And in a few days all five Quints were smacking their lips with pleasure at each bite.
Not a single one of the Quints has ever been spanked in her life. Dr. Dafoe believes that physical punishments are almost never necessary. As you've probably realized by this time, most of the Quints' moral lessons come under the head of discipline rather than punishment. If you don't eat, you go hungry. But there's no nagging or anger about it. A method which gives parent and child a lasting mutual respect.
The only punishment the Quints have known has been inflicted when they've been guilty of conduct which in an older girl we'd call "un-social."
Once not very long ago, for instance, Emilie lost her temper. She had climbed up on Dr. Dafoe's lap and she was lording it over the nursery. At mealtime the nurse came and took her away. But she
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