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Show THUMB-SUCKING A Natural Habit Noted Doctor Says Smce the beginning of time "s have tried to stop their "s from sucking their thumbs. liev"OW aPPears, if one is to be-2 be-2 not j Dr' Newton Kugelmass, Pediatrician of New York, t 'tnurnb-sucking is as normal as 1 jk alhing" and is not to be worried ut until the chHd is over two ye"s age. umb-sucking usually declines after the .second year of life, the noted physician observes. If it persists per-sists after the age of two, he has discovered as the result of intensive studies, "the child feels unloved, unwanted, guilty, resentful or in need of consolation." What is the remedy if a child continues to suck his thumb? "Trea the child, not the symptoms," ad vises Dr. Kugelmass. |