Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge.
- Oliver Lodge
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Parent and child : a treatise on the moral and religious education of children / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![elude them and forbid children to hear the old immortal stories,—part of the tradition of the race,—would be a literary crime. Appropriate dealing with different categories of things is largely an affair of moods. I want to emphasize this. What is suitable for one mood is not suitable in another. The mood and the sub- ject should agree. Children are not always in a work- ing mood, sometimes they are in a playing mood, sometimes in an im- aginative or make-believe mood, sometimes in a serious or inquiring mood. These moods should none of them be repressed, nor should they be treated all alike. The right mood should be induced, when necessary, [52]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2808679x_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)