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CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 5 V.—‘LIVING CREATURES’ Then, as for the ‘living creatures,’ here is a field of unbounded interest and delight. The domesticated animals are soon taken into kindly fellowship by the little people. Perhaps they live too far from the ‘real country’ for squirrels and wild rabbits to be more to them […]

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 4 IV.—FLOWERS AND TREES Children should know Field-crops.—In the course of this ‘sight-seeing’ and ‘picture-painting,’ opportunities will occur to make the children familiar with rural objects and employments. If there are farm-lands within reach, they should know meadow and pasture, clover, turnip, and corn field, under every aspect, from the

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 3 III.—‘PICTURE-PAINTING’ So exceedingly delightful is this faculty of taking mental photographs, exact images, of the ‘beauties of Nature’ we go about the world for the refreshment of seeing, that it is worth while to exercise children in another way towards this end,… Get the children to look well at

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 2 II.—‘SIGHT-SEEING’ By-and-by the others come back to their mother, and, while wits are fresh and eyes keen, she sends them off on an exploring expedition—Who can see the most, and tell the most, about yonder hillock or brook, hedge or copse. ‘Find out all you can about that cottage

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 1 OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE FOR THE CHILDREN I.—A GROWING TIME Meals out of Doors.—… On fine days when it is warm enough to sit out with wraps, why should not tea and breakfast, everything but a hot dinner, be served out of doors? For we are an overwrought generation, running to

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 1. Preliminary PART I SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS Not the least sign of the higher status they have gained, is the growing desire for work that obtains amongst educated women. The world wants the work of such women; and presently, as education becomes more general, we shall see all women with the capacity

CONDENSED Volume 1 Part 1. Chapter 6 VI.—CONDITIONS OF HEALTHY BRAIN-ACTIVITY Having just glanced at the wide region of forbidden ground, we are prepared to consider what it is, definitely and positively, that the mother owes to her child under the name of Education. And first of all, the more educable powers of the child—his

CONDENSED Volume 1 Part 1. Chapter 5 V—HINDERING THE CHILDREN A Child’s Relationship with Almighty God.—The most fatal way of despising the child falls under the third educational law of the Gospels; it is to overlook and make light of his natural relationship with Almighty God. “Suffer the little children to come unto Me,” says

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 1. Chapter 4 IV—DESPISING THE CHILDREN Suppose that a mother may offend her child, how is it possible that she should despise him? “Despise: to have a low opinion of, to undervalue”—thus the dictionary; and, as a matter of fact, however much we may delight in them, we grown-up people have far too low

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 1. Chapter 3 III.—OFFENDING THE CHILDREN Offences.—… we offend them, when we do by them that which we ought not to have done; we despise them, when we leave undone those things which, for their sakes, we ought to have done. An offence, we know, is literally a stumbling-block, that which trips