PEDIATRICS Vol. 36 No. 3 September 1965, pp. 450-451
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The Prophylaxis of Parental Overdependence

HAROLD V. WEATHERMAN M.D., F.A.A.P.

I've read Doctor Charles E. Brown's commentary on "A School Administrator's Role in School Health" in the June, 1965, issue of Pediatrics with enthusiasm, and offer him my hearty congratulations for it.

One excerpt from this is priceless to me, a pediatrician, who has been in practice for over thirty years. I am referring to the following: "The doctor, who either consciously or unconsciously encourages a mother to phone him every time a baby cries for more than a few minutes, or runs a temperature for more than a few hours, is not only making his own life difficult, but is contributing to the possible development of problems that will later on be shared by the schools.