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From: charliem@shark.UUCP (Charlie Mills)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Thumb-sucking ....
Message-ID: <1327@shark.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 10:20:14 EST
Article-I.D.: shark.1327
Posted: Thu Apr 11 10:20:14 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Apr-85 05:48:41 EST
References: <1524@decwrl.UUCP> <273@faron.UUCP>
Reply-To: charliem@shark.UUCP (Charlie Mills)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

In article <273@faron.UUCP> sidney@faron.UUCP (Sidney Markowitz) writes:
>In <1524@decwrl.UUCP> faucher@futbal.DEC (Cathy Faucher 381-2207) writes:
>>Any suggestions on how to wean a 3 1/2 from
>>sucking his thumb ???  
>
>... You can set up what is
>called a "double bind" in which the child can either do what you say, which
>is what the child claims to want, except even more, or else rebel and stop
>the originally rebellious behavior...

How can anyone think thumb-sucking is rebellious behaviour?  Clearly it
stems from a need to suck or a need for the security associated with sucking.
How can a need for security be construed as rebellious?

	-- Charlie Mills
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