WEANING
Weaning is a very delicate process, important for the whole of a child's life. It is
not a problem of nourishment, but of the spirit. This side of the problem is all but
neglected. We must be careful to substitute some other kind of pleasure to take the
place of the original pleasure of the mother's breast. The process of weaning can be
carried out so that the child himself, with a little encouragement, will choose a new
and wider form of pleasure, and so pass lightly through this, the most intense,
emotional experience of life. If the change, when its time comes, is violently made,
desire will not go forwards to new fields and to wider experience of mind, but
backwards to some substitute pleasure of the same type as the one to be
surrendered. Thumb-sucking, an obvious substitute, is the commonest.
(From
Talks to Parents and Teachers by Homer Lane)
E X E R C I S E 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) accustoming a baby to food other than its
mother's milk
b) requiring great care, caution or attention
c) connected series of actions
d) food
e) psychological and emotional part of a person ,
f) ignored
g) replace; take the place of
h) support; urging
i) change without difficulty
(phrase)
j) very strong; highly felt
k) strong wish
I) be given up
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