item: #1 of 5 id: 10042 author: Smith, Henrietta Brown title: The Child Under Eight date: None words: 73098 flesch: 65 summary: It is an appropriate time to produce a book on English schools for little children, now that Nursery Schools have been specially selected for notice and encouragement by an enlightened Minister for Education. He refused to use the word school, because little children, especially those under six, do not need to be schooled and taught, what they need is opportunity for development. keywords: activity; aim; beauty; boy; children; class; country; day; development; education; experience; free; froebel; games; garden; god; good; help; home; human; infant; kindergarten; life; making; man; material; means; method; miss; mother; nature; need; new; nursery; nursery school; people; pictures; place; play; power; reading; right; room; school; self; sense; stage; stories; story; surroundings; teacher; teaching; things; time; training; use; way; words; work; world; years; young cache: 10042.txt plain text: 10042.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 13533 author: Lamoreaux, Antoinette Abernethy title: The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training date: None words: 30260 flesch: 68 summary: It is indeed true that child life is that out of which man life is to come, but the difference is more vital than that of inches or strength. The man has a sense of responsibility to his neighbor and to God, unknown to child life. keywords: action; activity; character; child; childhood; children; development; feelings; god; heart; home; lesson; life; love; nurture; period; physical; power; school; soul; sunday; teacher; things; time; work; world; years cache: 13533.txt plain text: 13533.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 13722 author: Scharlieb, Mary title: Youth and Sex: Dangers and Safeguards for Girls and Boys date: None words: 29307 flesch: 59 summary: The relief and assistance which many boys have experienced from correspondence with me, and the interest which I find in their letters have caused me--spite of the extreme preoccupation of a strenuous life--to issue a special invitation to those who may feel inclined to write to me. Many boys outgrow the physical injuries which, in ignorance, they inflict upon themselves in youth; but very few are able wholly to cleanse themselves from the foul desires associated in their minds with sex. keywords: age; boys; case; child; children; day; experience; girl; good; impurity; instruction; knowledge; life; man; men; mind; opinion; parents; people; puberty; public; school; self; sex; subject; time; work; years cache: 13722.txt plain text: 13722.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 19549 author: Preyer, William T. title: The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. date: None words: 107716 flesch: 72 summary: Paul could speak but little, could say hardly any words except _Papa_ and _ A stubborn fault in declension is the putting of _am_ in place of _dem_ and _der_, e. g., _das am Mama geben_. keywords: articulation; attention; beginning; book; boy; brain; case; center; child; children; colors; concepts; day; days; deaf; development; eighth; expression; eye; eyes; fact; father; feeling; fifth; following; form; fourth; hand; head; hearing; ideas; image; imitation; impressions; intellect; language; learning; left; life; like; lips; little; mama; manner; meaning; means; memory; milk; month; mother; motor; movements; names; new; nurse; objects; observations; order; papa; period; persons; place; pleasure; question; regard; right; saw; second; sensations; sense; seventh; sounds; speak; speech; syllables; time; tongue; touch; understanding; use; voice; way; week; words; year cache: 19549.txt plain text: 19549.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 37020 author: Sully, James title: Children's Ways Being selections from the author’s "Studies of childhood," with some additional matter date: None words: 52359 flesch: 71 summary: Another little girl asked her grown-up cousin who was reading to her something about an old woman: Do people turn back into babies when they get quite old? Another interesting fact to be noted here is that some children firmly believe that persons after dying and going to heaven will return to earth as little children. The charge of cruelty in the case of little children is, indeed, seen to be a gross libel as soon as we consider their whole behaviour towards the animal world. keywords: animals; art; boy; case; child; children; example; face; fancy; fear; feeling; fig; form; girl; god; good; half; head; idea; illustration; impulse; kind; life; little; look; mind; months; mother; new; people; play; self; sense; things; thought; time; way; world; years; young cache: 37020.txt plain text: 37020.txt