They think that crying and shouting is the only way to get...

They think that crying and shouting is the only way to get things done according to their wishes. They can never show patience and courage in doing anything. They want to achieve their end immediately even if they have to cry profusely for the purpose. They do not feel ashamed at playing such shameful antics. The parents and other members of the families are always restless because of such children.

Dr Jalali writes about such children: “If the feeding schedule of a child is fixed in consultation with an expert pediatrician then it will get used to the timings and the mothers will understand when the child is hungry and when its appetite is sated. Secondly, people do their daily tasks as a force of habit.

Similarly feeding of the child too becomes a habit and is done almost automatically at the scheduled timings.[^2] Russel says: “These days an ordinary mother knows the norms of bringing up children. She knows that it is important to feed the baby at predetermined intervals and not whenever it cries for some reason or the other.

She knows that such regime is followed to keep the digestive system of the baby in good trim… When the children see that the parents are acceding to their cries, it becomes their second habit and keeps crying at the slightest excuse. It also happens that the repeated episodes of crying over a long period earn them the anger of their parents.

When the children realize this, they become morose and the world looks cold, dry and bleak to them.”[^3] Attention must be paid to a few points: For all the children the same program of feeding could not be possibly adopted. Every child will have its own digestive and nutritive requirements. And also the food requirements of any child are very dynamic. The digestive system of the new-born will be delicately tiny for the first forty to fifty days from birth.

Therefore it can retain very small quantity of milk. It will be able to take a very small quantity of milk at a time. But it becomes hungry very soon thereafter. During this period the feeding times have to be of shorter intervals, say, every hour and a half to two hours. But as the children grow the gap between the feeds have to be increase, say, a feed every three to four hours or even more. All the children will not be of the same physical condition and digestive capacity.

Therefore an individual feeding program has to be developed for every individual child.