Bringing up the normal child / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D.

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[1914]
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Credit: Bringing up the normal child / editor: Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be supplemented by the wholesome influence of association with other children. In the wonderful commonwealth of the playground, the emotional outbursts of the individual are made to seem ridiculous, egoistic desires are subordinated to the wishes of the many, and lessons in self-control are inculcated that will be of utmost importance in after life. The parent who adopts the coddling process of keeping his child away from the “rough” asso- ciations of the playground does that child an irre- trievable injury. Moral Training Closely linked with the question of training the body and the emotions are the problems of moral development. Of course the inculcation of the recognized principles of ethical conduct is a parental duty that no cultivated person overlooks. But there is a surprising lack of acumen in the practical carry- ing out of even the most elementary teaching as practiced by the average parent in his relations with the young child. As to this I may be per- mitted to repeat the admonitions I have elsewhere given regarding what seems to me the funda- mental principle of action that should control the moral education of the child from earliest infancy, which most parents ignore or wilfully controvert. [24]
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