Excerpt from Parents and Their Problems: A Systematic Course in Child Nurture<br><br>What we need, and what we are going to get, is a better balanced system of child culture, that will take the child as he is, and our complex civilization as it is, and harmonize and adjust the two in a humane, and scientific manner. - Hygiene and Physical Education.<br><br>He who helps a child helps humanity with a distinct ness, with an immediateness, which no other help given to human creatures in any other stage of their human life can possibly give again. - Philli°ps Brooks.<br><br>Some children brood silently for years over questions which they do not themselves originate, but which once put into their minds recur again and again, and when put into articulate form are met only with the unsatisfactory answer, 'you aren't Old enough to understand it yet.' Those who remember their own childish puzzles will also remember the vague feeling of injury which such an answer roused.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.