Childhood / edited by T.N. Kelynack.

Date:
[1910]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Childhood / edited by T.N. Kelynack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the second year teeth are often a source of irritation, and it does the child no harm to gnaw a chicken- or a chop-bone. It helps the process of cutting the teeth and encourages the biting process, which is an excellent training for the thorough mastication so desirable at a later age. Soothers and comforters are not to be commended, but if used must be made of bone or coral, so that they can be kept scrupulously clean without difficulty. Sample Diets for a Young Child. Diet from 12 to 15 months. Diet from 15 to 18 months. Diet from 18 months to 2 years. Break- fast 7 or 7.30 Breakfastcupful of food,1 | of this must be pure milk, the rest the special food. Breakfastcupful of milk, slice of thin bread and butter. Breakfastcupful of milk, slice of thin bread and butter, yolk of a lightly boiled egg, to alter- nate with a little well-cooked por- ridge. 10 or 10.30 Drink of milk and rusk or plain biscuit. Drink of milk with rusk, plain biscuit, or stale sponge cake. Drink of milk with rusk, plain biscuit, or stale sponge cake. Dinner 1 o’clock Same as break- fast. A cupful of good beef-tea,2 chicken broth,3 or beef gravy, with a rusk or stale bread. About three times a week, instead of the broth or gravy, the yolk of a lightly boiled egg on a little mashed potato may be given. 7 to 1 tablespoon ful of roast underdone beef or mutton finely minced. A little well-mashed potato with gravy, or potato and gravy followed by a good table- spoonful of milk pudding. For drink, water, toastwater,4 or barley water.5