1971, the year before Marvelous Kiddo's dad was born, a wonderful & important book emerged on the scene: Ashley Montagu's "Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin." Several editions have since been printed citing updated scientific findings. I highly recommend this classic to anyone interested in learning more about the importance of skin to skin contact in the fostering of human bonding, development & intelligence.
"The greatest sense in our body is our touch sense. It is probably the chief sense in the processes of sleeping and waking; it gives us our knowledge of depth or thickness and form; we feel, we love and hate, are touchy and are touched, through the touch corpuscles of our skin." ___ J Lionel Tayler, The Stages of Human Life, 1921
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1971, the year before Marvelous Kiddo's dad was born, a wonderful & important book emerged on the scene: Ashley Montagu's "Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin." Several editions have since been printed citing updated scientific findings. I highly recommend this classic to anyone interested in learning more about the importance of skin to skin contact in the fostering of human bonding, development & intelligence.
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sleeping and waking; it gives us our knowledge of depth or thickness and form; we feel, we love and hate, are touchy and are touched, through the touch corpuscles of our skin."
___ J Lionel Tayler,
The Stages of Human Life, 1921