item: #1 of 14 id: 10335 author: Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith title: Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic date: None words: 41765 flesch: 66 summary: Her eyes brighten now, for a stream of little children comes pouring from that door. The ideal teacher of little children is not born. keywords: book; child; childhood; children; come; day; development; education; feeling; froebel; good; hand; heart; human; kindergarten; knowledge; life; little; love; man; matter; men; mind; mother; nature; new; people; play; power; right; school; self; sense; story; things; think; thought; time; training; truth; way; work; world; years; young cache: 10335.txt plain text: 10335.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 10916 author: Hall, Mosiah title: Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training date: None words: 39639 flesch: 73 summary: Some children are timid and superstitious, too often they are laughed at and ridiculed; on the other hand, fun should never be made of such children and they should be given every opportunity to develop courage and self-reliance. Particularly do we need to study child nature. keywords: baby; boy; boys; child; children; day; education; girl; good; habits; heart; home; individual; lesson; life; love; man; mother; nature; needs; parents; period; power; right; school; social; study; time; training; way; work; world; years cache: 10916.txt plain text: 10916.txt item: #3 of 14 id: 11667 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind date: None words: 94045 flesch: 64 summary: The question what degree of natural intelligence he shall be endowed with, in comparison with other children, is determined, not by himself, but by his Creator, and depends, probably, upon conditions of organization in his cerebral system as much beyond his control as any thing abnormal in the features of his face, or blindness, or deafness, or any other physical disadvantage. When they brought little children to him, he did not begin to expound to them the principles of the government of God, or the theoretical aspects of the way of salvation; but took them _up in his arms and blessed them_, and called the attention of the by standers at the same time to qualities and characteristics which they possessed that he seemed to regard with special affection, and which others must imitate to be fit for the kingdom of God. keywords: action; authority; boy; case; chapter; children; course; effect; end; example; fault; force; form; good; influence; kind; love; management; manner; mary; means; mind; mother; nature; obedience; parent; play; power; principle; punishment; respect; right; thing; time; way; work; wrong; years cache: 11667.txt plain text: 11667.txt item: #4 of 14 id: 16221 author: Addams, Jane title: The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets date: None words: 27307 flesch: 54 summary: Never before have such numbers of young boys earned money independently of the family life, and felt themselves free to spend it as they choose in the midst of vice deliberately disguised as pleasure. And while many young people go to the theater if only to see represented, and to hear discussed, the themes which seem to them so tragically important, there is no doubt that what they hear there, flimsy and poor as it often is, easily becomes their actual moral guide. keywords: boy; boys; chicago; children; city; course; day; factory; family; find; girl; house; industry; life; man; men; order; people; pleasure; public; recreation; school; sense; spirit; street; theater; time; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 16221.txt plain text: 16221.txt item: #5 of 14 id: 19432 author: Mapes, Victor title: Heart and Soul by Maveric Post date: None words: 75761 flesch: 66 summary: There are a lot of other men around me, about the same as I am. Among other things, they saw a Chinaman smoking opium and this gave rise to a desire on her part to experience the sensation for herself. keywords: boy; character; children; consideration; day; experience; faith; father; feelings; good; heart; individual; influence; intellect; interest; kind; life; love; man; matter; men; mind; mother; nature; new; people; point; present; principle; purpose; question; reason; right; school; science; scientific; self; sort; soul; things; time; way; women; world cache: 19432.txt plain text: 19432.txt item: #6 of 14 id: 37640 author: Brown, John title: Health: Five Lay Sermons to Working-People date: None words: 22789 flesch: 80 summary: You have nowadays all sorts of schemes for making bad men good, and good men better. Good night, _ keywords: body; children; day; death; disease; doctor; duty; food; god; good; health; heart; life; man; men; mind; need; night; people; thing; time; way; woman; work; world cache: 37640.txt plain text: 37640.txt item: #7 of 14 id: 40481 author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins title: Concerning Children date: None words: 59351 flesch: 69 summary: Observe, too, that our most intelligent progress is made in those arts, trades, professions, sciences, wherein little children are not trained; and that our most palpable deficiencies are in the morals, manners, and general personal relations of life, wherein little children are trained. If retributive punishment does not proportionately decrease crime in adult criminals, perhaps it does not decrease naughtiness among little children. keywords: baby; behaviour; brain; care; child; children; conditions; course; day; development; education; ethics; good; home; human; individual; life; little; love; mind; mother; need; nurse; obedience; parent; people; place; power; progress; race; school; social; society; things; time; training; women; work; young cache: 40481.txt plain text: 40481.txt item: #8 of 14 id: 47850 author: Prentiss, E. (Elizabeth) title: The Home at Greylock date: None words: 78384 flesch: 87 summary: And it isn't nice for little children to fidget and whisper while that is being done. one to see little children before they are spoiled? You speak as if spoiling was inseparable from development; as if life were intended to be all retrograde. keywords: belle; boy; chapter; children; day; dear; eric; eyes; family; father; frank; girl; god; good; grey; hand; heart; home; house; laura; life; look; love; mabel; mamma; margaret; mother; mrs; olaf; people; poor; right; room; things; thought; time; viola; want; way; word; work; years cache: 47850.txt plain text: 47850.txt item: #9 of 14 id: 52302 author: Kingsley, Florence Morse title: Those Brewster Children date: None words: 38997 flesch: 83 summary: The arrival of Miss Evelyn Tripp, in a hansom cab with a small much-belabelled trunk on top, successfully diverted her mind from this and other ethical problems. Miss Evelyn Tripp presently appeared in a wonderful toilet, all lace and twinkling jets. keywords: betty; boy; brewster; carroll; children; course; day; dear; doris; elizabeth; evelyn; eyes; face; father; good; head; hickey; home; little; look; man; miss; mother; mrs; richard; sam; stanford; time; tripp; way; young cache: 52302.txt plain text: 52302.txt item: #10 of 14 id: 57283 author: Key, Ellen title: The Century of the Child date: None words: 70874 flesch: 60 summary: Prof. Axel Key's investigations on school children have won international recognition. An old illiterate housekeeper who earned a living by taking school children to board was one of the best educators I have ever seen. keywords: case; children; day; development; education; feeling; freedom; future; good; history; home; human; individual; instruction; life; love; man; marriage; means; mother; nature; new; parents; people; power; present; punishment; race; result; right; school; self; society; soul; study; system; things; time; training; view; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 57283.txt plain text: 57283.txt item: #11 of 14 id: 57689 author: Adler, Felix title: The Punishment of Children date: None words: 12635 flesch: 67 summary: See https://books.google.com/books?id=pV9HAQAAMAAJ&hl=en American Home Series Norman E. Richardson, Editor THE PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN by FELIX ADLER Printed in the United States of America First Edition Printed April, 1920 Reprinted July, 1920; March, 1922 THE PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN keywords: case; character; child; children; fault; life; means; method; nature; order; parents; punishment; time cache: 57689.txt plain text: 57689.txt item: #12 of 14 id: 59495 author: Johnson, John title: Reject date: None words: 1884 flesch: 88 summary: Mr. Ames flicked his cigar ashes toward a vacuum cup on the wall and looked down at the boy. Well, Mr. Ames said, coldly. keywords: ames; play cache: 59495.txt plain text: 59495.txt item: #13 of 14 id: 60912 author: Abbott, Ernest Hamlin title: On the Training of Parents date: None words: 23394 flesch: 73 summary: When he finally encounters other children, he does not know the bounds either of expediency in tolerating their idiosyncrasies, or of right in maintaining his own. To deprive a child of friction with other children is to keep him in slippery places. keywords: authority; boy; case; children; course; day; fact; father; good; government; habit; household; imagination; mind; mother; parents; place; punishment; quarrel; regard; religion; respect; time; training; way cache: 60912.txt plain text: 60912.txt item: #14 of 14 id: 7966 author: Chamberlain, Alexander Francis title: The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day date: None words: 163036 flesch: 81 summary: Among the Arapaho Indians the sign for _child, baby_, is the forefinger in the mouth, _i.e._ a nursing child, and a natural sign of a deaf-mute is the same; related seem also the ancient Chinese forms for son and birth, as well as the symbol for the latter among the Dakota Indians (494 a. 356). From the limited supply of material at the disposal of the early speakers of a language, we can readily understand how the same sound had to serve for the connotation of different ideas; this is why _mama_ means in one tongue _mother_, in another _father_, in a third, _uncle_; _dada_ in one language _father_, in a second _nurse_, in another _breast_; _tata_ in one language _father_, in another _son_, etc. keywords: 8vo; aged; ages; american; ancient; animals; arms; attention; babe; baby; bear; beautiful; belief; birds; birth; blood; body; book; boy; boys; breast; brother; case; century; chapter; chief; child; childhood; children; christ; christmas; church; come; common; corn; country; cradle; culture; custom; das; daughter; day; days; dead; death; der; die; early; earth; education; england; english; europe; evil; fact; family; father; female; find; finger; fire; flowers; folk; following; food; form; games; genius; german; girl; god; goddess; gods; golden; good; great; greek; half; hand; having; head; heart; heaven; hero; high; history; holy; home; house; human; husband; i.e.; idea; iii; indians; infant; islands; journ; kind; kinder; king; land; language; latin; law; left; legend; life; living; london; lore; love; making; man; marriage; mary; means; medicine; men; milk; mind; modern; moon; mother; native; nature; new; north; number; order; origin; parents; parts; peoples; place; play; ploss; poet; power; present; priest; professor; races; rain; read; religion; right; school; sea; sky; social; society; son; song; soul; speak; speech; spirit; states; stories; story; study; subject; sun; tales; tells; terms; thee; things; thought; thy; time; tree; tribes; und; village; virgin; vol; von; washington; water; way; white; wife; wild; woman; words; work; world; years; york; young; youth cache: 7966.txt plain text: 7966.txt