Show 4 Y Your au r Baby's HealtH Healt V VV V By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN V Editor Journal Journal of the American Medical Association and md of ci th ih Health Magazine 1 Everybody y should know by now 1 that children arc are not born equal either mentally or ph physically Most of them are arc the sum of their an an- n- n Many a parent himself is not as smart as ho he would like Uke his hI's child to be The Tho first duty of a n. parent is to find out the tho limit of ot tho childs child's intellectual capacity and not to endeavor to drive the tho child be beyond beyond beyond be- be yond that capacity Tho The child who cannot think well remember well or learn normally should have the advantage of what science science ence enco can offer oCer to make the most out of oC th the tho capacity that it has Once it is discovered that a child is mentally slow and that it cannot keep up p with vilh other children the parents must decide what they are to do about its education But feut Ut first they must determine by suitable suitable suit suit- able examination that the physical physical cal condition of tho the child is as asgood as asgood asgood good as it can possibly be made Out of ot ottoo too delinquent children studied in a mental mt hygiene clinic it was found that a considerable percentage suffered from easily corrected physical defects detects One- One third had bad teeth and large adenoids and Many of or the children had parents parents parents par par- who were handicapped by physical illness the illness the father being being- unable to work and the mother being compelled to earn the family family family fam fam- ily living Many of them had paren parents parents par par- en who were themselves dis di distinctly J- J neurotic There is of course some soma relationship relationship relationship rela rela- between diseases es and in in- in There are aro many conditions conditions conditions con con- which do not lessen intelligence intelligence intel Intel- bu bur seem instead to sharpen sharp sharp- en the mind Thus it it has been shown hown that children who are especially especially especially espe espe- sensitive to various food substances are likely to be more alert than are other children Out of 1077 1071 children examined in glasgow those suffering from chronic rheumatism or kidney disorders disorders dis dis- dis- dis V orders were found to be just as intelligent as their brothers and sisters On the other hand those sufferIng suffering suffering suffer suffer- ing from real disorders of the glands and with either an excess or deficiency of internal secretions secretions secretions secre secre- were found occasionally to depart from normal intelligence levels Attempts have been made mado to correlate height and intelligence It has be been n claimed that children of higher intelligence are slightly taller than others This claim was made in Great Britain where people in general are taller than people of some other races Nobody yet has found that taU tall Japanese ere are any smarter than the short ones V |