Your Child Today And Tomorrow Some Problems For Parents Concern

In the sad years that have intervened since this book was published, we have all been impressed by the brilliant achievements of science in every department of practical life. B...

While I hope that not many of us are guilty of such flagrant abuse of our power as is described above, still I am certain that on many occasions we punish just as hastily, witho...

How completely the child throws himself into an imaginary character is shown by an incident which occurred recently. A little boy of four, who had been accustomed to speak only...

It is probably better for the child if we do not push the analysis of acts and motives too early, for there is more danger at a certain age from morbid self-consciousness than f...

Fear and hatred are closely connected, and in cultivating fear we are fostering a trait that may in a critical moment turn to hatred. The only things that we should teach our ch...

But we must remember that in guiding the child to the formation of these habits, example and practice are far more important than precepts and rules. Example is more important b...

To him this meant that in winter, after going to bed, _at night_, one must get up and dress. It is very likely many children who have had this delightful poem read to them have...

At about three years of age the child also comes more and more to see things in relation to each other and no longer as isolated objects. At this time, if he has a cow, he wants...

Where there is no vision the people perish; and that is just as true of the individual as it is of a nation. Moreover, it is the _youth_ who shall see the visions and draw from...

The same principle of imitativeness would, of course, apply to other ideals. This explains to us why the recurrence of certain ideals or modes of life in successive generations...

A graceful child becomes awkward and a well-mannered child comes to act rudely and to speak quite unlike his former self. These changes are related to the fact that with the dev...

There are, it is true, many people who say that they "do not believe" in either heredity or environment. Such people see the difficulties of the disputants and reject both alter...

Grown folks who have thought about the matter know, of course, that "freedom" is something different from merely being left alone. They know that freedom is a state to be attain...

To discover the interests of the children requires that they be given an opportunity to express themselves. This means in most cases much more freedom than children have heretof...