European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Creating Type a tots the super baby burnout syndrome at French for tots in Manhattan instructors teach the French word for an object or on action Ana let the child demonstrate the word. By Janet elder new York times parents have Long appreciated in Picasso like b Fence of their own children s first linger Pauling Bui Rover Cloro have they paid so much attention Strokos of next door pressured by Ihor poors to raise an accomplished child and propelled by a competitive life style parents in the United Stales arc trying to gel tha Edge by enrolling i hair Inland land toddlers in classes i Hal Promise to teach Eyo Ryling from Reading of Bailies to French conversation Tor year-Olds. There is gym Oran a gymnastic set Lof newborns music for Vyora Olds scion co and cooking of 2 s. Simmang skiing arid piano for. Children not old enough to walk and Oflinn this is us the beginning orca those children Star school they spend their Aller school hours advancing ram Folk songs to sonatas from the backstroke to the High diving Board. The once calming words of the family paediatrician he s Fine he s doing what s Normal Lor his age Send the current generation of parents into a state of panic it s not enough to have an average child said David Neikind. Professor of child study at lulls Lindvo Tsily. Parents wont to have a gifted child they see it 33 but the dizzying array of classes Lor the stroller Sot seems to be creating ewer Kozaris and hat Vaid graduates than parents had hoped in act psychologists and paediatricians say some toddlers have born asked to do so much they us can l keep up said Kathy s. Kalz director of the psychology division of Georgetown University s child development Center thay out As they gel older Thoy just won t Hava the drive and motivation to Rise to greater and Grealer challenges professionals say that at an age when children should be relaxed and Happy they Are consumed by the pressure to succeed and they become nervous and uptight. The schedules of some Young children look More Iske Ito schedules of Busy of ecu said or. Stanley Turecki a child and family psychiatrist As Well As physician in charge of the dih cull child program at Beth Israel Hospital in new York. We re creating Type a1 whether their parents Are satisfying their own egos Are caught up in what the neighbors Are doing Lor their children or Aro genuinely confused the result is Iho same. Middle class upwardly Mobile parents Arp ignoring the dictates of child development and. Embracing the popular notion sooner a something the boiler Oil that child will for Many children the oys of an unencumbered childhood have been sacrificed to for performance their parents place on them however Sullo the world of play once the Laboratory and secret hiding place of childhood has Boon snatched from some children of ten parents Sec play As unproductive or a waste of Lime. It s natural for parents in a country As competitive As ours to want to be sure thai a child is keeping up with lha said or Benjamin Spock author of the now legendary baby and child care. Bui i would want to make the Point that children Are learning very actively when they Are playing when they Are following hoi rown instincts. Up Corner a Castle it sheif Pareres have observe their children1 a. Proles Ronal whispers to value of their child s Pla Suzuki m this room these parents arertii.". Understanding their Chil advancing in. ,./. -,.- "vv1 Bui no Matier what it. Are 2 Cah t help being 2 Page 14 the stars and stripes. Saturday a
