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Show Strict Feeding Schedule 1 May Build Resentment The mother who puts her young baby on a strict feeding schedule may be building up a personality that will resent co-operation in later life. This seems to be the implication of a report by Dr. J. V. Hunt of Brown university to the American Psychological association. In a laboratory experiment with rats, Dr. Hunt found scientific confirmation con-firmation for the Freudian doctrine that experiences in very early infancy in-fancy have a profound effect on the character of adult men and women. Dr. Hunt put baby rats on a "schedule." For two weeks he gave them only a limted amount of food instead of feeding them all they wanted. When they were grown, the rats turned into misers, hoarding hoard-ing great quantities of food if they felt even slight pangs of hunger. Rats who were "put on a schedule" early in infancy were affected more in later life than those whose dieting was begun' later. In human terms, this might mean that babies brought up strictly on schedule, regardless of how hungry i they may sometimes be, are likely to be peculiarly sensitive to anjr . deprivation or neglect in later life. |