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Show Excessive Iother-Love May Bring About Child'? j Inferiority Complex i i By PR. ALFRED ADLER, Austrian Psychiatrist. 7? OTHER love is the one thins;, more than anv'other except phv-jVj phv-jVj ?iea' hauJioap, that mara the character of many children, yet Jy j any mother can avoid that catastrophe ii she learns the be-i be-i havior tenets. j Mothers are too likely to destroy, or minimize courage in their babies. ' The child learning to walk totters, reaches out for mamma and falls in ! her arms instead of on the floor. Depending on mamma. The child gets I hurt, a bump. Mamma soothes. Mamma does everything. The result ! is an inferiority complex. The child feels the mother's superiority, be-; be-; comes - a coward, sometimes. Cowardice is a vicious trait. It stops proper j development of the social character, leads to suicide. Suicide is cowardice, j Then there is the inferiority complex that is developed in the first ! horn because of the second born. For maybe one year, two years, three years, the first horn has been the center of the home, receiving all atten-i atten-i tion. Unprepared for the coming of the second child he finds his place ! usurped. Hurt, not understanding, the first born becomes spiteful, mean, '. sullen. j . The later children are the best equipped. They never get to be the j center of the home; mother love isn't lavished upon them. They have to fight, they have to U-'velop independence. And how often, indeed, we see j the last bora outstrip the older brothers and sisters. |