{"id":2170,"date":"2007-07-24T00:46:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2007-07-24T00:46:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T00:46:17","slug":"received-wisdom-on-childrearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2170","title":{"rendered":"Received wisdom on childrearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents have always played with their children, it&#8217;s &#8220;natural&#8221;, &#8220;essential&#8221;, normal&#8230; well <a href = \"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/ideas\/articles\/2007\/07\/15\/leave_those_kids_alone\/?page=full\">no<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The goal of the Yucatec Maya is to keep babies in a &#8220;kind of benign coma,&#8221; through bathing and swaddling, so that parents can leave them and get work done. As recently as 1914, the US Department of Labor&#8217;s Child Bureau advised parents not to play with babies, for fear of overstimulating their little nervous systems&#8230;.<br \/>\nTo be sure, there are exceptions. Some African foraging tribes display striking examples of parental playfulness. And the Inuit make toys for their toddlers and get goofy &#8212; but they&#8217;re cooped up for months at a time in igloos, bored witless. Lancy suggests that the American milieu &#8212; caregivers stuck, without a community, in oversized homes &#8212; is not entirely dissimilar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well worth reading the whole thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents have always played with their children, it&#8217;s &#8220;natural&#8221;, &#8220;essential&#8221;, normal&#8230; well no: The goal of the Yucatec Maya is to keep babies in a &#8220;kind of benign coma,&#8221; through bathing and swaddling, so that parents can leave them and get work done. As recently as 1914, the US Department of Labor&#8217;s Child Bureau advised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}