Freud_Burlingham_1943_War_and_Children_k_text

to them, reappeared as often as she disappearedand had no intention to desert them altogether,the state of frenzy subsided and gave way to aquieter, more stable and comforting attachment.At the same time, the children beganto develop in leaps and bounds. The most gratifyingeffect was that several children who hadseemed hopeless as far as the training for cleanlinesswas concerned, suddenly started to usethe pot regularly and effectively.Bathing times in the evening have now becometimes of special intimacy when each childis certain of the full and undivided attention ofits favourite adult. This again, has had a remarkableeffect on the development of speech.All the children in the group have greatly enlargedtheir vocabulary. And several childrenwho were rather backward in their speech developmentdue to nursery life, have now, underthe influence of thisthesearrears.new stimulus made up forThere is every hope at the moment that thespeech of all the children will reach the levelof development which it would have attainedunder the conditions of home and family life.Real families, as for instance the three Fitzgibbonand the two Miles children, were ofcourse left together in our family groups.There is the possibility that these newlyformed attachments might have consequences160