The following are notes taken from chapters of a book about brain development…if you read this book you will see how Gary Ezzo’s methods work AGAINST our biology and are physically and as a result emotionally and spiritually harmful. God’s ways are not harmful. Therefore, Babywise is not how to “grow kids God’s way.”
Primal Health: Understanding the critical period between coneption and the first birthday
by Michel Odent
2007
Chapter 1
…These experiments, with dogs or rats, showed how animals can learn to be helpless. During the 1960’s, Martin Seligman and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments to test a learning theory. They divided some dogs into two groups. The first group was given electric shocks from which they could do absolutely nothing to escape. The second group of dogs was placed in identical cages, but given no shocks at all.
The same two groups of dogs were then tested in a special box which had two compartments divided by a barrier. In one compartment, the dogs received an electric shock. But by jumping over the barrier, they could escape the shocks. The second group of dogs, which had never had any electric shocks before, very quickly discovered the escape route and jumped over the barrier.
But the astounding thing was that the first group of dogs – those who had previously been shocked – did not make any attempt to escape. They just crouched helplessly in the electric shock compartment. Even when the dogs were lifted over the barrier to the safe side, it still made no difference. They had learned from their first experience that nothing they did made any difference, and they were unable to control events.
Seligman called this behaviour ‘learned helplessness’.
Later, other researchers wanted to find out what physiological changes would occur in rats when they were given varying degrees of control over electric shocks. They found that when the rats had no control over the shocks, they suffered stomach ulcers and weight loss. These rats also had lower levels of adrenalin, the hormone which gives sudden energy to be able to fight or to run away. The rats were not made ill by the electric shocks, but by the state of submission they were in at the time of the shocks.
In France, Henri Laborit was another scientist who studied the effects of unavoidable electric shocks. What he found was that if a pair of rats were put together in a cage while receiving electric shocks they were protected against a rise in blood pressure by fighting with each other. But the rats which could neither fight nor run away did suffer a rise in blood pressure…
…a person’s entire capabilities are decreased when they have no control over what happens to them, and can only passively submit.
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