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In a recent study made by the author of the characteristics of 250 pre-school age children who were supposed entirely normal, among other unexpected results two findings were surprising because of their apparent relationship.
Of the group studied, 28 per cent were bed-wetters and of these 50, or 20 per cent, were past the age of two and one-half years. In looking up the characteristics of these particular children, the picture was noticeably similar, the majority of these reading as follows:
Male, age 70 months—anger, stubborn, negativistic, disobedient, marked fears, moody, excitable, jealous, imaginative, mother pathologically nervous and depressed during pregnancy.
Male, age 70 months—anger, suggestible, fear, tantrums, excitable, emotionally unstable, affectionate, imaginative.
Female, 60 months—anger, stubborn, negativistic, fear, disobedient, tantrums, moody, dominating, excitable, affectionate, imaginative, mother pathologically depressed and nervous during pregnancy.
Female, 51 months—stubborn, negativistic, fear, dominating, excitable, jealous, affectionate, imaginative.
Male, 68 months—anger, suggestible, fear, excitable, bashful, imaginative, affectionate, mother pathologically depressed and nervous during pregnancy.
Male, 63 months—nightmares, anger, suggestibility, fears, mother pathologically depressed and nervous during pregnancy, bashful, excitable, affectionate, marked phantasies.
Male, 47 months—anger, stubborn, negativistic, selfish, fears, untidy, jealous, affectionate, marked phantasies, mother pathologically depressed and nervous during pregnancy.
Female 54 months—anger, stubborn, negativistic, selfish, disobedient,