Category: Psychiatry/Psychology
CHAPTER PAGE FOREWORD xi I FROM BABY TO BOY 3 II THE SIMPLICITY OF DISCIPLINE 17 III AS THE TWIG IS BENT 33 IV A TALK AT CHRISTMAS TIME 48 V THE DYNASTY OF THE DIME NOVEL 63 VI THE SIN OF SEX SECRECY 77 VII THE WEED AND THE WINECUP 91 VIII OUT INTO THE WORLD 104
CHAPTER PAGE FOREWORD xi I FROM BABY TO BOY 3 II THE SIMPLICITY OF DISCIPLINE 17 III AS THE TWIG IS BENT 33 IV A TALK AT CHRISTMAS TIME 48 V THE DYNASTY OF THE DIME NOVEL 63 VI...
2. Part 2Disobedience calls for a punishment that is short, direct and impressive. A sharp tap on the palm of a boy’s hand, or on the calf of his leg--or two or five or ten--is the only...
3. Part 3Not so in Santa Claus land. There, and there only, is found the absolute submergence of self, the sincerely impersonal benefaction. As a child, coming down to the dazzling Chris...
4. Part 4“God made everything, as you know. He made the sea and the land, the sky and the stars and the sun and the moon. He makes the trees and the plants and the animals and the boys a...
5. Part 5That was ten years ago and the young man has never risen above mediocrity--and he never will. He lacked one essential to the drama--imagination. The truth is that he should have...