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| Reference #: | 492 |
| Submit Date: | 07 Feb 2003 |
| Browse Category: | baby crying |
| Author: | none |
| Email Address: | none |
| Treatment used: | none |
| You can buy this remedy at: | free |
| Remedy will cost you: | free |
| Country of Remedy: | USA |
| Remedy Source: | Indian folklore |
| More Links about this Remedy: | none |
| # Comments posted to this remedy: | 3 |
| Complaints Reported: | 0 |
| # of times remedy read: | 17,469 |
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I heard that some american indian tibes taught their
children not to cry in a anthropolgy class i took years ago. It was important that they teach their children not to cry because crying: 1) scrare off animals that the tribe hunted; 2) alert enemy tribes to the presence of the the tribe; 3) crying allows the children to manipulate the parents. It was acceptible for children to cry when there was a need such a sorrow and morining but not to get what you wanted. Unlike todays two parent families, when a child was born to a tribal family. It had as parents all the adults in the tribe and hundreds of sisters and brothers and many grandparents. To teach the baby not to cry on day one minute one after the child was born, they would make sure the child was safe (ie secure in is bundling) ... then leave it alone in the lodge.. tepee.. till it stopped crying.. this could take several hours. The next lesson would be to stop the baby from crawling or falling into the firepit which was in the middle of the tepee. To do this they would burn one of the babies fingers. Of course, the baby would start crying again, and the parents would leave the baby alone. Its harder to brake a child of the "crying to manipulate the parents" but it can be done. Once i took a mother a her 2 daughters to visit a waterfall. The waterfall was in a canyon. It was about a 25 minute walk to a viewpoint to see the waterfalls. The mother carried the baby, but i refused to carry the other child since she was old enough to walk. She started crying to get me to carry her. I refused and told her, that her crying made nice echoes off the canyone walls. After about 15 minutes she gave up crying and enjoyed the walk and the waterfall. We were alone in the park. Two inches of snow had fallen and chased everyone away. This was very strange as it was part of the National Park System Lyville Falls on the Blue Ridge Sky Parkway. |
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Comment: R U kidding me? |
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| Submit Date: | 16 Jun 2003 |
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| Email Address: | jnickell2@yahoo.com |
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I am appauled by the notion that one would leave their newborn to cry. Crying at this age is not utilized by a baby to "manipulate" their parents. For the love of god people, can you honestly say that a day-old infant can manipulate their parents by crying. Get real, this is a response to a physiological need and by holding your children it gives them the comfort of knowing that their mother or father loves them. Come on get with the program. |
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Comment: Oh Please! American's are too soft! |
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| Submit Date: | 14 Jan 2010 |
| Author: | unknown |
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Lady, you must be a tree hugger from the portland or Seattle area. Native children were fine before the plague called white people came to the America's. What a great concept and you should get with the program. I'm sure when your kids grow up they will leave you in an old folks home. Isn't that what you American's teach your children anyways? Maybe we should learn something from the past on this one. This has nothing to do with a lack of loving on their part. This is actually the ultimate love. If their kids scared their only food source away or let a rival tribe know where they are, they could have been killed. America has gotten too soft. Time to raise our kids to become warriors and not these tea drinking panzies that the British tried to convert us into. The person also forgot to mention the pinch method. They would actually pinch their kids when they cried as well. This taught them to keep their mouths shut. --------------------------------- Editor well if you don't like the "leave the crybaby alone" or the "pinch" method you can try the Hazda African "cut" method. Haza's live in Tanzania in Africa and are one the last hunter/gathers cultures left on the planet. Check out their story in National Geographic Magazine, December 2009, p. 94 In this method you cut the childs face with small cuts on their checks beneath their eyes. Their tears make their cuts sting. A excellent way to stop crying. The cuts later grow into nice scars. |
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Comment: Incorrect method of Native Americans was described. |
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| Submit Date: | 14 Oct 2012 |
| Author: | JNW |
| Email Address: | none |
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The method described for how Native Americans taught their children to mew instead of squall is not completely accurate. Yes they ignored a child if it wailed for no reason (if a child was safe, fed, and clean and crying to cry- which yes they do this) but there was also pressure technique. As a child cried the person comforting the child would hold a cloth lightly over it's nose to encourage the child to mouth breath and whimper rather than wail. This was not painful and is like holding a tissue to a child's stuffed up nose. This was done every time a child cried. It took only a few days to realize when it mew'ed rather than squalled it received what it was calling for. Simple and painless. For some interesting reading on this topic check out the article. *********** Editor: There is not one method that all the US indian tribes used to control children crying. There were/are many different Indian tribes in the US and hence there was probably several different methods the different tribes used to control crying. Also there are/were many different Native tribes living all over the planet also using different methods to control their tribes crying children. For example, the African Hazda tribe would make a "cut" below the eye to catch the tears from crying. See above comment. |