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<blockquote data-quote="Crayola13" data-source="post: 734225" data-attributes="member: 21066"><p>I remember chicken pox parties. Before the vaccine, it was inevitable you would catch it. When one neighborhood kids got chicken pox, one of the parents in the neighborhood would offer to take off work for two weeks and and have all the neighborhood kids stay at their home. Parents would say stuff like, "Go give Carrie a hug . . ." so that it you would catch it and get it over with. When I tell my students about this, they think it was criminal.</p><p></p><p>I also remember when pediatricians would tell parents to give their kids an ounce of whiskey as a last resort when the kid would cough non-stop night after night. These days, a doctor would go to jail.</p><p></p><p>Holding a cigarette a few feet from a child's ear so that the smoke would stop the pain from an ear infection really helped. Nowadays, that is considered child abuse. My dad did that when I was seven, and it did the trick.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crayola13, post: 734225, member: 21066"] I remember chicken pox parties. Before the vaccine, it was inevitable you would catch it. When one neighborhood kids got chicken pox, one of the parents in the neighborhood would offer to take off work for two weeks and and have all the neighborhood kids stay at their home. Parents would say stuff like, "Go give Carrie a hug . . ." so that it you would catch it and get it over with. When I tell my students about this, they think it was criminal. I also remember when pediatricians would tell parents to give their kids an ounce of whiskey as a last resort when the kid would cough non-stop night after night. These days, a doctor would go to jail. Holding a cigarette a few feet from a child's ear so that the smoke would stop the pain from an ear infection really helped. Nowadays, that is considered child abuse. My dad did that when I was seven, and it did the trick. [/QUOTE]
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