"childhood"pseudo-article

[laura]

Yes! I remember it too. It was something like The Journal of
Polymorphous/Perverse (some sort of P word) Psychology... And it was
on the Etiology of Childhood.

What a hoot. Let's find it and have our students read it. LJ



Laura Justice, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Curry School of Education
University of Virginia

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> Dear Infochildes,
>
> As long as Patrick Griffiths has you rummaging
> around mentally, let me ask about an article I
> saw about 10 or 15 years ago.  I showed it to my
> then teenage daughter, who registered it, but now
> as a new mother would like to see it again--and
> I can't find it.
>
> It was a tongue-in-cheek description of childhood
> as a medical condition--explaining the small stature,
> disorganized movements etc.  (It's NOT the piece in
> the Onion, which is in the same vein, but cruder.  The
> Onion is the tabloid version; this is the one that
> tries to be from "Nature" (or so I remember it.)
>
> I don't think it was new way back when.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Barbara Pearson
>
> > Patrick Griffiths wrote:
> >
> > In the last year or so, I read something about a long-term
> > record on the development of a King of France (?Louis
> > XVI?) kept by his personal physician. I can't remember
> > where I read this and would very much appreciate pointers
> > from someone who recognises what I am fumbling for.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Patrick Griffiths
> >
> > Beppu University
>
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