What's the Point of a Baby Book?

The most popular child rearing book in Wilhelm, mind Germany. Each child was individually frog-marched to a chamber on the ground floor set aside for administering the punishment. The children were giving four to eight stinging strokes from a birch cane. This was not just an ordinary case of disciplining children through corporal punishment,. which was common at the time. One girl passed out from the pain. Others were not able to hold their books in their swollen hands. So that's pretty bad.