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Perfect Parents

Call no.: : 649.109/HAR
Author: : Christina Hardyment
Contributor: : Freda Binti Padel
Summary: From the mid-eighteen century to the present day, parents have been bombarded and landed many advice on how to look after their babies. Here, Christina Hardyment provides a much-needed new perspective on the whole perplexing business,showing that not only has the advice given always been subject to the prevailing question and fashions and to the authors, but that the book have had a hand in provoking the anxieties they set out. From Rousseau and Locke to Lydia Child and Maria Edgeworth; from James B. Watson`s admonitions about physical contact ("Never hug and kiss them.") to Jean Liedloff`s insistence that babies should be kept physically attached to their mothers until they positively struggle to get away, it’s all here about anything that a parents needed to be a perfect parent for their child or their upcomings.