Show harm done by seeking to standardize child children tire are being wronged by enforced molding to the means of mass measurement dr 1 I newton kugelmass says in hygeia magazine in an article entitled the myth of 0 the average child standardizing plastic louth into average patterns is 13 detrimental physically to growing ch children lidren troublesome psychologically to perturbed parents and false biologically to the national ideal children aro individuals not average in their body build and in their organs and tissues even to the single cells twenty five trillion in number that compose the human structure every child Is 13 unitary and unique never before and never again can the exact conditions be reproduced for the evolution of the same being A child Is considered normal physically when he does not reveal any pathologic disturbances that interfere with his functional integrity or with his pattern of growth development it is a negative definition expressed in terms of the abnormal because we have more knowledge of disease than of well being clinically it Is practical to classify children in two extreme groups that defene a wide range of norm for any one child the one la Is dynamic and thin and the other static and fat |