Studies in Infant Psychology

Abstract

T no previous time in the history of the human race has so much L interest centered in the life and growth of the One sees evidence of this in the development of various organizations and institutions for furthering the bodily welfare of the child; in the fact that kindergartens are admitting younger and younger children; and in the fact that the whole field of preventive medicine is focusing more and more upon the study of methods by means of which the infant and the child may be kept free from disease. At a recent conference of physicians and psychologists held for the purpose of discussing the feeding and the care of infants and their medical and psychological study, the remark was often made, albeit somewhat grudgingly, it seems astonishing but true that everything in the last three years in medicine and psychology has been headed toward the infant. From the moment of birth and even before his advent the young human animal is looked after from every material standpoint in a, way which would have made our frontier ancestors, who simply let their babies grow, doubt our sanity. The conviction is growing, however, and rapidly, that our knowledge is still too scanty to enable us to care properly for all phases of the welfare of the infant and child. Pediatricians, dieticians and even general practitioners have had the conclusion forced upon them that merely keeping thbottle plentifully supplied with modified cow's milk or feeding the infant with some new form of balanced diet combined with a little welfare work in the home, has not prevented a

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