Learning from Grandma and the “Notorious” Truby King

A expectant grand-daughter ponders generational attitudes to child-rearing, musing on her grandmother’s strict training under New Zealander Truby King”: “[King] is the Aunt Sally for almost all post-war child-rearing books … His doctrines were adopted across the western world and he has been blamed for everything from the steep post-war decline in breastfeeding – almost certainly true – to autism, which is certainly false.