item: #1 of 8 id: 12359 author: Fiske, John title: The Meaning of Infancy date: None words: 9179 flesch: 56 summary: More of the knowledge of human life is brought within the comprehension of children; more men are brought into a large and sympathetic participation in the activities of our civilization. The growth of the democratic spirit among men and institutions has made the education of children a public necessity, and lifted the school to a position of high social importance. keywords: evolution; infancy; intelligence; life; man; period; point; selection; things; time cache: 12359.txt plain text: 12359.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 14515 author: Cameron, Hector Charles title: The Nervous Child date: None words: 51981 flesch: 59 summary: In nervous children these movements, which should properly be confined to moments of real emotional stress, become habitual, and are displayed apart from the excitement of particular emotions. These actions are not confined to nervous children, and their occasional practice need not be taken to imply that there is any strong element of nervous overstrain. keywords: attention; bed; body; cause; child; childhood; children; conduct; control; crying; day; development; environment; food; force; good; habit; life; management; mind; mother; nurse; parents; place; power; refusal; relation; school; self; sense; sleep; suggestion; symptoms; time; treatment; unrest; vomiting; way cache: 14515.txt plain text: 14515.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 20817 author: Sadler, Lena K. (Lena Kellogg) title: The Mother and Her Child date: None words: 149992 flesch: 69 summary: Only rigid isolation can possibly prevent other children from getting it--essentials are separate towels, wash towels, soap (in the case of the older children), and, in the case of the baby, separate diapers and rigid scrubbing of the attendant's hands--in this way only can this infection be held in check. TRUSTING YOUR CHILD Often the question arises: Will they tell to other children this newly found knowledge? keywords: + =; = +; = =; acid; age; air; attention; babe; babies; baby; bath; bed; birth; blood; body; bottle; bowels; breast; care; case; chapter; child; children; clean; cold; condition; cotton; cry; daily; day; days; disease; doctor; face; family; feeding; feet; fever; following; food; fresh; good; half; hands; head; heat; home; hours; ice; inches; labor; life; method; milk; mind; minutes; months; morning; mother; mouth; night; nurse; nursing; oil; ounces; pain; patient; physician; place; pregnancy; pressure; room; second; skin; sleep; soap; sugar; teeth; temperature; throat; time; treatment; urine; use; warm; water; way; week; weight; woman; work; years; | | cache: 20817.txt plain text: 20817.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 30820 author: United States. Children's Bureau title: If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime date: None words: 4440 flesch: 83 summary: Keeping baby clean._--Mothers sometimes attempt to bathe babies on a train in the washroom basins. Soldiers and sailors on furloughs, men on business trips, women--young and not so young--and babies, lots of them, mostly small. keywords: baby; food; milk; train; travel; trip; water cache: 30820.txt plain text: 30820.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 34830 author: Leslie, Madeline title: Little Frankie and his Mother date: None words: 6919 flesch: 96 summary: DO you wish to know who little Frankie was, and where he lived? Dear little Frankie! keywords: baby; frankie; good; little; mamma; tree; willie cache: 34830.txt plain text: 34830.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 36015 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story date: None words: 42717 flesch: 93 summary: Wouldn't it spoil some things if we knew the why of them, little Peggy? Peggy did not answer. And little Peggy, with her neat hair and clean pinafore, stood in the middle of the children holding out Hal's slipper, and smiling at them like an old friend. keywords: baby; children; come; cottage; day; dear; good; hal; lady; mamma; miss; nurse; peggy; poor; sarah; smiley; time; way; white; window cache: 36015.txt plain text: 36015.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 45168 author: Arthington, Maria title: Rhymes for Harry and His Nurse-Maid date: None words: 5105 flesch: 90 summary: _ Little Truths better than great Fables, 2 parts. If it be _not_ attended to, children are great observers, and will soon find that but little regard is paid to truth; and thus incalculable evils may be the result. keywords: baby; care; children; harry; illustration; mamma; nurse cache: 45168.txt plain text: 45168.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 6595 author: Chavasse, Pye Henry title: Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children date: None words: 117663 flesch: 73 summary: Although I do not approve of _cold_ water, we ought not to run into an opposite extreme, as _hot_ water would weaken and enervate the babe, and thus would predispose him to disease. _Young_ children, as a rule, are allowed to eat too much meat. keywords: air; babe; bath; bed; body; bowels; care; case; child; children; cold; course; day; days; delicate; diet; disease; exercise; fever; flannel; food; footnote; fresh; giving; good; great; half; head; health; hot; hours; infant; inflammation; let; life; little; lungs; man; means; medical; medicine; milk; morning; mother; night; nurse; oil; open; patient; pox; remedy; room; scarlet; skin; sleep; stomach; sugar; symptoms; tea; teeth; time; treatment; warm; water; way; wine cache: 6595.txt plain text: 6595.txt