Category: Parenthood & Family Relations
AMONG those who in the last twenty years have helped to spread a knowledge of the educational principles of Froebel beyond the limits of his native country, Miss Elizabeth Peabody's name deserves to be specially remembered. It is mainly owing to her enthusiastic efforts that t...
But first I must tell you how I had this opportunity and privilege of being the first person to name GOD to this child when he was four and a half years old. He was the son of a...
11. Part 11"Wherever love and goodness are," said I; "in you, in me, and in mother, in everybody who _loves_." I was encouraged to believe he would comprehend this language, unimaginable a...
12. Part 12"Well, things that live and feel--living beings--always eat and drink; they continue to live by eating and drinking, and God tells them to eat by making it pleasant for them to...
13. Part 13When, later, my studies with a great philologist gave me a little light upon the subject, and showed me that English had the misfortune to be written by an inadequate alphabet,...
15. Part 15I can illustrate this by anecdotes of a child to whose moral life I was obliged to call in the aid of the religious sentiment, and even of the specific Christian revelation of p...
5. Part 5"Who'll buy my eggs?" is a good play to exercise them in counting. And all these movement plays with the ball are admirable for exercising the body, giving it agility, grace of...
17. Part 17It is the maternal nursing of body and mind which educates the free force within to produce transient effects, and finally objects, agreeable to the sensibility. Even before the...
4. Part 4There is doubtless marked difference in the original energy of life, in different children. Young--but not too young, happy, healthy, loving parents, have the most vigorous, liv...
9. Part 9Both fancy and understanding are developed in time by words. We all know how children are waked up and delighted by Mother Goose absurdities, and still more by fairy stories tha...
1. Part 1AMONG those who in the last twenty years have helped to spread a knowledge of the educational principles of Froebel beyond the limits of his native country, Miss Elizabeth Peabo...
7. Part 7A materialistic educator (or no less a mere dogmatist in religion, who does not see that the logical formulas and abstract terms of scientific theology cannot possibly _wake up_...
18. Part 18We have found that the human being comes into the world with an æsthetic nature, which is to be vivified by the presentation of the beauties of nature and art, in such a way as...
16. Part 16The possibility of doing this will prove to any one who has any heart and imagination that it is no mere poetic phrase, but a profound spiritual truth, that "Heaven lies about u...
3. Part 3It is twenty-two years since Froebel died. He had made a band of kindergartners, and set them at work. They all began with small pecuniary reward. It was at first a starving bus...
2. Part 2After a few years of this happy home and school life, which he continually reflected upon in contrast with what he had suffered for so many years, the good grandmother died, and...
6. Part 6Rousseau affirms that every child, if left to its own natural growth, would think its mother was its creator. And William Godwin in his _Enquirer_ (or some volume of his writing...
14. Part 14The system of education which Froebel discovered, or invented, in consequence of realizing this, is what we are endeavoring to learn and apply, that we may bring out of the mora...
8. Part 8I here pause to display two kinds of work actually done by children under seven years of age at Frau Marquadt's kindergarten in Dresden. They enable me to show that those sedent...
19. Part 19This is the way sunshine comes down, Sweetly, sweetly falling; So it chaseth the cloud away, So it waketh the lovely day, This is the way sunshine comes down, Sweetly, sweetly f...