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|The author is at one with other modern educators in believing that too much importance cannot be attached to the first few years of a child's life. It is in these years that 'the forces are set in motion which count for most in the making or marring of the individual's character and career.' The book is addressed to parents in the belief that while 'parental responsibility is much greater than most parents suppose; so is parental opportunity.'| -Book Review Digest |Mr. Bruce has notable facility in putting into layman's language the results of scientific research. Without sacrificing the virtue of accuracy, he makes the pages lucid, easily understandable and keenly interesting.| -The Bookman |His book will be found valuable by many a parent for its excellent practical suggestions, based as they are upon a wide reading of recent psychological and medical literature.| -The Nation |An Illuminating and very readable book.| -The New York Times The chief aim of this informal |handbook for parents| is to review and unify, in non-technical language, the findings of modern psychology which bear especially on the laws of mental and moral growth. The time has come when it is not only desirable but necessary to attempt something of this sort; for in the course of their labours the educational, medical, and social psychologists have accumulated a mass of data revealing unsuspected defects, and hinting at marvellous possibilities, in the upbringing of the young. On the one hand, they have shown that not enough heed has been paid to the hampering influences of an unfavourable environment and physical maladjustment; and, on the other hand, they have made it clear that, by instituting certain reforms, it is entirely feasible to develop mental and moral vigour in the mass of mankind to an astonishing degree. My own belief, indeed, for reasons set forth in subsequent pages, is that the discoveries of the modern psychologists justify the assertion that, through proper training in childhood, it is possible to create a race of men and women far superior morally to the generalty of the world's inhabitants to-day, and manifesting intellectual powers of a far higher order than the generalty now display. Whether this belief will ever be vindicated--whether, for the matter of that, the discoveries of recent psychological research will prove of any real value--depends, of course, on the extent to which practical application is made by those having charge of the young, and particularly by parents. For the fact most surely established by the scientific investigators is that it is in the first years of life, and in the influences of the home, that the forces are set in motion which count for most in the making or marring of the individual's character and career. Parental responsibility is consequently much greater than most parents suppose; but so is parental opportunity. This book accordingly is addressed primarily to parents in the hope that it may be of some assistance to them in avoiding the pitfalls, and developing the possibilities, of that most important of all human activities--the training of the next generation. CONTENTS Preface I The Importance of the Environment II Suggestion in Education III The Secret of Genius IV Intensive Child Culture V The Problem of Laziness VI A Chapter on Laughter VII Hysteria in Childhood VIII The Menace of Fear IX A Few Closing Words

File Name:Psychology and Parenthood
Posted By:H. Addington Bruce
Published on 2018-04 by
ISBN-10:1987434196
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