# The dramatic instinct in children

Author: American Institute of Child Life

Genre: Category: Psychiatry/Psychology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70812

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+dramatic+instinct+in+children+American+Institute+of+Child+Life&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

THE development of the dramatic instinct in children is the special responsibility of parents. The public school and church school programs are gradually including dramatics and the teachers in many of these schools can go far in sharing this responsibility. But it is in the home where room and time, equipment and motive, suggestions and cooperating friends are found. Parental skill is revealed in helping a child to try on a new character or virtue as well as a new blouse or pair of shoes. Social and moral imagination in the child can be realized under the direct guidance of father or mother. Voyages are taken, investigations made, treasure islands discovered, animals subdued, robbers put...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dramatic-instinct-in-children-70812/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-dramatic-instinct-in-children-70812/chapters/2/index.md)