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'Practice Babies': An Outdated Practice, Rediscovered

Did you know that orphan infants were "borrowed" by Cornell University at the turn of the 1900s and used in Home Economics college classes? 

"From 1919 to 1969, college home economics programs around the country had so-called practice houses or practice apartments where young women learned the domestic arts: cooking, cleaning, running a household. The college students learned mothering skills by caring for "practice babies" -- infants lent by local orphanages to live at the school." (NPR Staff, 2011)

This is one of my favorite articles of all time. Today we know that infants form bonds with their caretakers in the first year of life. But this was not understood in the early 1900s when the major view in psychology was based in behaviorism. In fact, our understanding of attachment bonds didn't deep until the 1960's. 

Read this article about practice babies that NPR published in 2011. 'Practice Babies': An Outdated Practice, Rediscovered http://www.npr.org/2011/01/06/132708047/practice-babies-an-outdated-practice-discovered 

Source: NPR Staff (2011, January 6). 'Practice babies': An outdated practice, rediscovered. National Public Radio. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/2011/01/06/132708047/practice-babies-an- outdated-practice-discovered

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