Note
.—Books in the above list may be purchased through the American School of Home Economics at the prices given. Members of the School will receive students' discount.
Infancy.(Study pages 3-25)
Infancy.(Study pages 3-25)
(a) Its Meaning. See Fiske on "The Part Played by Infancy in the Evolution of Man" in "A Century of Science" (16c).
(b) General Laws of Progression. See Millicent Shinn's "Biography of a Baby" (12c), and W. Preyer's "The Mind of the Child" (20c). Give resumés of these two books.
(c) Practical Conclusions. Hold Experience Meeting to conclude afternoon.
Faults and Their Remedies.(Study pages 26-57)
Faults and Their Remedies.(Study pages 26-57)
(a) General Principles of Moral Training. Read Herbert Spencer on "Education" (12c), chapter on "Punishment"; also call for quotations from H.H. Jackson's "Bits of Talk About Home Matters" (10c).
(b) Corporal Punishment. Why It Is Wrong.
(c) Positive Versus Negative Moral Training. Read extracts from Froebel's "Education of Man" (12c), and Richter's "Levana" (12c), Kate Douglas Wiggin's "Children's Rights" (10c), and Elizabeth Harrison's "Study of Child Nature" (10c), are easier and pleasanter reading, sound, but less fundamental. Choice may be made between these two sets of books, according to conditions.
(Select answer to test questions on Part I and send them to the School.)
Character Building.(Study pages 59-75)
Character Building.(Study pages 59-75)
Read extracts from Froebel, Pestalozzi, and Harriet Martineau.
(a) From Froebel to show general principles (12c).
(b) From Pestalozzi (14c) or if that is not available, from "Mottoes and Commentaries on Froebel's Mother-Play" (14c), to show ideal application of these general principles.
(c) From Harriet Martineau's "Household Education" (10c), "Children's Rights" (10c), to show actual application of these general principles. Experience meeting.
Educational Value of Play and Occupations.(Study pages 78-99)
Educational Value of Play and Occupations.(Study pages 78-99)
(a) General Principles—Quote authorities from past to present. Read from "Education of Man" (12c) and "Mother Play" (14c).
(b) Representative and Symbolic Plays. See "Education of Man" (12c) and "Letters to a Mother on the Philosophy of Froebel" (12c). Dancing and Drama from Richter's "Levana" (12c).
(c) Nature's Playthings (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water). Ask members of class to describe plays of their own childhood and tell what they meant to them.
(Select answer to test questions on Part II.)
Art and Literature in Child Life.(Study pages 100-112)
Art and Literature in Child Life.(Study pages 100-112)
Ask members to bring good pictures and story-books, thus making exhibit.
(a) Place of Pictures in Children's Lives. Of Color. Of Modeling. Influence of artistic surroundings. If anyone knows of a model nursery or schoolroom, let her describe it. Are drawing and modeling at school "fads" or living bases for educational processes? See Dewey on "The School and Society" (10c).
(b) Place of fiction in education. See "The Place of the Story in Early Education" (6c).
(c) Accomplishments. Practical discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of music lessons, the languages, and other work out of school. See "Adolescence," by G. Stanley Hall.
Social and Religious Training.(Study pages 114-140 and Supplement)
Social and Religious Training.(Study pages 114-140 and Supplement)
(a) The Question of Associations. See Dewey's "The School and Society" (10c), "The Republic of Childhood" (30c). Quote "Up from Slavery" (14c) and "Story of My Life" (14c), to show that the humblest companions may sometimes be the most desirable.
(b) The New Education. See catalogues of the Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, Ill., (4c); The Elementary School, University of Chicago, (6c); State Normal School, Hyannis, Mass., (4c); "School Gardens," Bulletin No. 160, Office of Experiment Stations, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., (2c).
(c) The Sex Question. Where are the foundations of morality laid—church, school, home, or street? Read entire, "Duties of Parents to Children in Regard to Sex" (pamphlet, 5c).
(d) Religious Training. Read from "Christian Nurture" (12c) and "Psychology of Religion" (14c). (Select answer to test questions on Part III.)
For more extended program, book lists for mothers, children's book list, loan papers, send to the National Congress of Mothers, Mrs. E.C. Grice, Corresponding Secretary, 3308 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Price, 10 cents each. See also "The Child in Home, School, and State," with address by President Roosevelt.—Report of the N.C.M. for 1905. Price, 50c.
NOTE.—When reference books mentioned in the foregoing program are not available from public libraries, they may be borrowed of the A.S.H.E. for the cost of postage indicated in parentheses. Three books may be borrowed at one time by a class, one by an individual. For class work, a book may be kept for two weeks, or longer, if there is no other call for it. Send stamps with requests, which should be made several weeks in advance to avoid disappointment.
Abnormal laziness, 47Abstract studies, 119Accomplishments and studies, 119showy, 123Accounts, personal, 129Adolescence, religious excitability, 136Adult's world, 24Advantage of positive commands, 61Affections, cultivation of, 45Aims of kindergarten, 45Air as a plaything, 82castles, 163Allowance, regular, 127Alternate growth of children, 14Anaemia, 47Answer honest questions, 71Answers to questions, 160Application of principles, 141Aristotle's teachings, 76Art and literature in child life, 101and nature, 112classic, 102influence of, 101plastic, 104Associates, children's, 113exclusive, 114Baby-jumpers, 14Bandaging the abdomen, 21Beginnings of will, 7Bible, children's, 139Bible lessons made real, 139study, 138Bonfires, 85Books for children, 111,170Bottle-fed babies, 25Breaking the will, 29Busy work, 97Care of pets, 45Cause of impudence, 51of irritability and nervousness, 35of rupture, 21of temper, 35Character building, rules in, 74Children, other people's, 145Children's associates, 113Bible, 139clubs, value of, 45hour, the, 118Child's share in family republic, 65world, 24Classic art, 102Clay modeling, 80Climbing, 13Clothing, proper, 20Color, 102Colored pictures, 104Commands, disagreeable, 37positive, 35useless, 11Company ways, 161Conclusion, 140Condition at birth, 3Consciousness of self, 6Corporal punishment, 54,166Correlation of studies, 121Correspondence training, 142Costume model, 21Creeping, 12Cultivate affections, 45Cutting and pasting, 99Daily outing, 18Dancing for children, 87Danger of forcing, 12Dangerous pastimes, 83Darwin's observations, 9Depravity, original, 61Development of intellect, 126premature, 3Diagram of Gertrude suit, 23Diet, simple, 25Disadvantages of Sunday Schools, 134Disagreeable commands, 37Discipline, educative, 57Disobedience, 30real, 33Double standard of morality, 53Double standards, 158Drama, 107Dramatic games, 107plays, 87Drawing and painting, 99Dress for play, 79Dress, proper, 20Duties, systematized, 37Duty to one's self, 164Education, the new, 120scientific, 121Educational beginnings, 5exercises, 5value of play, 77Educative discipline, 57Effect of Sunday school teaching, 132Emergencies, 30Enthusiasm, religious, 135"Enthusiasms", 124Essentials of play, 78Evasive lying, 39Evils, permanent, 28resulting from corporal punishment, 55Example, bad, 52courteous, 54evil, 115versus precept, 34, 68Exclusive associates, 114Fairy tales, 109Family republic, 64Fathers, 152responsibilities of, 154Fatigue harmful to children, 94Faults and their remedies, 26real, 28temporary, 24Fear versus love, 55Feeding, indiscriminate, 25Financial training, 126Fire as a plaything, 84First grasping, 8Fiske's doctrine of right, 64teachings, 15Food, natural, 24question, 162undesired, 11Forcing, danger of, 12Fresh air, 18Froebel's great motto, 70philosophy, 59Fundamental principles of the new education, 59Games, dramatic, 107Gardens for children, 81Gertrude suit, 21Goodness, original, 61Goodness, negative, 32Grasping, 9,11Growth of children, 14of will, 8Helping, 93mother, 91Home kindergarten, 90How the child develops, 3Imagination and sympathy, 110Imitativeness, instinct of, 32Imaginative lying, 39Immature judgment, 30Impudence, cause of, 51Incomplete development at birth, 4Indiscriminate feeding, 25punishment, 55Industry, willing, 94Influence of art, 101Inherited crookedness, 41disposition, 38Instinct, 9of imitativeness, 32Instrumental music, 107Intellect, development of, 126Irritability, cause of, 35Jealousy, 42Justice and love in the family, 42Kindergarten, aims of, 45as a remedy for selfishness, 44methods, 62methods in the home, 90social advantages of, 113Knit garments, 22Law-making habit, 70Laziness, 46Liberty, 33,64Limitations of words, 67Literature, 108and art, 101Looking, 9Love of work, 93versus fear, 55Low voice commands, 66Lungs, weak, 21Luther's teachings, 76Lying, evasive, 39imaginative, 39kinds of, 38politic, 40Magazines for children, 111Magic lantern, 85Massage, 5Meaning of righteousness, 72Model costume, 21Modeling apron, 81clay, 80Monotony undesirable, 95Moral precocity, 73training, object of, 60Mother and teacher, 165Mother, teaching, 92Mothers as teachers, 134Mud pies, 80Muscular development, 5Music for children, 106instrumental, 107study of, 124Mystery of sex, 72Nagging, 96Naps, 20Natural food, 24punishment, 29talent, 124Nature study, 112Negative goodness, 32Neighbors' opinions, 63Nervousness, cause of, 35New education, the, 120principles of, 59Normal child, 12Nursery requisites, 16Object of moral training, 60of punishment, 40Objection to pinning blanket, 21Obligation of truthfulness, 38Occupations, 90Only child, the, 44Opportunity for growth, 16Order of development, 9Other people's children, 145Outing, daily, 18Painting and drawing, 99Parental indulgence, 154vanity, 125Pasting and cutting, 99Permanent evils, 28Personal accounts, 129Pets, care of, 45Physical cause of laziness, 46culture, 123culture records, 25Philosophy, Froebel's, 59Pictures, colored, 104Pinning blanket, objection to, 21Plastic art, 104Play, 76educational value of, 77essentials of, 78with the limbs, 5Politeness to children, 69Politic lie, the, 40Positive commands, 35,61Precautions to prevent attacks of temper, 37with fire, 84Precocity, 15moral, 73Premature development, 3Preyer's record, 11,19Principles, application of, 141Prohibitions, useless, 34Punishment, corporal, 54indiscriminate, 55natural, 29object of, 40self, 34Questions, answers to, 160Quick temper, 35Real disobedience, 33faults, 28Reflex grasping, 7Regular allowance, 127Religious enthusiasm, 135excitability of adolescence, 136training, 131Remedy for fits of temper, 36Responsibilities of fathers, 154Restrictions of dress, 79Rhythmic movements, 86Richter's views, 28,87Right doing, 28made easy, 63Righteousness, meaning of, 72Right material for play, 79Rights of others, 64Rules in character building, 74Rupture, cause of, 21Sand piles, 80Scientific education, 121Self-distrustful child, 160Selfishness, 43Self-mastery, 29punishment, 34Sewing, 98Sex, 71mystery of, 72question, the, 149Showy accomplishments, 123Simple diet, 25Sleep, sufficient, 19Social advantages of kindergarten, 113Soft spot in head, 4Solitude remedy for temper, 36Songs for children, 86Spencer's view, 29Spending foolishly, 128wisely, 127Standard of morality, double, 53Standing, 14Stanley Hall's views, 137Stealing, 168Stockinet for undergarments, 22Story telling, 93Studies, abstract, 119and accomplishments,119correlation of, 121Success in child training, 143Sullenness, 38Sunday school, disadvantage of, 134effect of, 132teachers, 131Sunlight necessary for growth, 16Sympathy and imagination, 110in play, 79Symptoms of anaemia, 47Systematized duties, 37Talent, natural, 124Teaching mother, 92Telling stories, 93Temperament, emotional, 42Temperature of nursery, 18Temper, cause of, 35precautions to prevent attacks of, 37Temporary faults, 24Theater, 108Theory before practice, 161Thermometer in nursery, 18Throwing, 10Tiedemann's teachings, 35Touching forbidden things, 11Toys, 83,88,89Training, financial, 126for parents, 142religious, 131Truthfulness, obligations of, 38Unconscious influence, 157Underclothing, 22Undesired food, 11Undisciplined will, 30Unresponsiveness, 38Unsought advice, 148Untidiness, its remedy, 49Useless commands, 11prohibitions, 34Value of children's clubs, 45Vanity, parental, 125Variable periods of growth, 15Ventilation, means of, 18Walking, 14Water as a plaything, 82colors, 99Weak lungs, 21Weight at birth, 4Wholesome surroundings, 16Will, beginnings of, 7breaking, the, 29growth of, 8Willful child, 34Willing industry, 94Will, undisciplined, 30Work, beautiful, 96love of, 93Wrappings, extra, 21
Abnormal laziness, 47Abstract studies, 119Accomplishments and studies, 119showy, 123Accounts, personal, 129Adolescence, religious excitability, 136Adult's world, 24Advantage of positive commands, 61Affections, cultivation of, 45Aims of kindergarten, 45Air as a plaything, 82castles, 163Allowance, regular, 127Alternate growth of children, 14Anaemia, 47Answer honest questions, 71Answers to questions, 160Application of principles, 141Aristotle's teachings, 76Art and literature in child life, 101and nature, 112classic, 102influence of, 101plastic, 104Associates, children's, 113exclusive, 114Baby-jumpers, 14Bandaging the abdomen, 21Beginnings of will, 7Bible, children's, 139Bible lessons made real, 139study, 138Bonfires, 85Books for children, 111,170Bottle-fed babies, 25Breaking the will, 29Busy work, 97Care of pets, 45Cause of impudence, 51of irritability and nervousness, 35of rupture, 21of temper, 35Character building, rules in, 74Children, other people's, 145Children's associates, 113Bible, 139clubs, value of, 45hour, the, 118Child's share in family republic, 65world, 24Classic art, 102Clay modeling, 80Climbing, 13Clothing, proper, 20Color, 102Colored pictures, 104Commands, disagreeable, 37positive, 35useless, 11Company ways, 161Conclusion, 140Condition at birth, 3Consciousness of self, 6Corporal punishment, 54,166Correlation of studies, 121Correspondence training, 142Costume model, 21Creeping, 12Cultivate affections, 45Cutting and pasting, 99Daily outing, 18Dancing for children, 87Danger of forcing, 12Dangerous pastimes, 83Darwin's observations, 9Depravity, original, 61Development of intellect, 126premature, 3Diagram of Gertrude suit, 23Diet, simple, 25Disadvantages of Sunday Schools, 134Disagreeable commands, 37Discipline, educative, 57Disobedience, 30real, 33Double standard of morality, 53Double standards, 158Drama, 107Dramatic games, 107plays, 87Drawing and painting, 99Dress for play, 79Dress, proper, 20Duties, systematized, 37Duty to one's self, 164Education, the new, 120scientific, 121Educational beginnings, 5exercises, 5value of play, 77Educative discipline, 57Effect of Sunday school teaching, 132Emergencies, 30Enthusiasm, religious, 135"Enthusiasms", 124Essentials of play, 78Evasive lying, 39Evils, permanent, 28resulting from corporal punishment, 55Example, bad, 52courteous, 54evil, 115versus precept, 34, 68Exclusive associates, 114Fairy tales, 109Family republic, 64Fathers, 152responsibilities of, 154Fatigue harmful to children, 94Faults and their remedies, 26real, 28temporary, 24Fear versus love, 55Feeding, indiscriminate, 25Financial training, 126Fire as a plaything, 84First grasping, 8Fiske's doctrine of right, 64teachings, 15Food, natural, 24question, 162undesired, 11Forcing, danger of, 12Fresh air, 18Froebel's great motto, 70philosophy, 59Fundamental principles of the new education, 59Games, dramatic, 107Gardens for children, 81Gertrude suit, 21Goodness, original, 61Goodness, negative, 32Grasping, 9,11Growth of children, 14of will, 8Helping, 93mother, 91Home kindergarten, 90How the child develops, 3Imagination and sympathy, 110Imitativeness, instinct of, 32Imaginative lying, 39Immature judgment, 30Impudence, cause of, 51Incomplete development at birth, 4Indiscriminate feeding, 25punishment, 55Industry, willing, 94Influence of art, 101Inherited crookedness, 41disposition, 38Instinct, 9of imitativeness, 32Instrumental music, 107Intellect, development of, 126Irritability, cause of, 35Jealousy, 42Justice and love in the family, 42Kindergarten, aims of, 45as a remedy for selfishness, 44methods, 62methods in the home, 90social advantages of, 113Knit garments, 22Law-making habit, 70Laziness, 46Liberty, 33,64Limitations of words, 67Literature, 108and art, 101Looking, 9Love of work, 93versus fear, 55Low voice commands, 66Lungs, weak, 21Luther's teachings, 76Lying, evasive, 39imaginative, 39kinds of, 38politic, 40Magazines for children, 111Magic lantern, 85Massage, 5Meaning of righteousness, 72Model costume, 21Modeling apron, 81clay, 80Monotony undesirable, 95Moral precocity, 73training, object of, 60Mother and teacher, 165Mother, teaching, 92Mothers as teachers, 134Mud pies, 80Muscular development, 5Music for children, 106instrumental, 107study of, 124Mystery of sex, 72Nagging, 96Naps, 20Natural food, 24punishment, 29talent, 124Nature study, 112Negative goodness, 32Neighbors' opinions, 63Nervousness, cause of, 35New education, the, 120principles of, 59Normal child, 12Nursery requisites, 16Object of moral training, 60of punishment, 40Objection to pinning blanket, 21Obligation of truthfulness, 38Occupations, 90Only child, the, 44Opportunity for growth, 16Order of development, 9Other people's children, 145Outing, daily, 18Painting and drawing, 99Parental indulgence, 154vanity, 125Pasting and cutting, 99Permanent evils, 28Personal accounts, 129Pets, care of, 45Physical cause of laziness, 46culture, 123culture records, 25Philosophy, Froebel's, 59Pictures, colored, 104Pinning blanket, objection to, 21Plastic art, 104Play, 76educational value of, 77essentials of, 78with the limbs, 5Politeness to children, 69Politic lie, the, 40Positive commands, 35,61Precautions to prevent attacks of temper, 37with fire, 84Precocity, 15moral, 73Premature development, 3Preyer's record, 11,19Principles, application of, 141Prohibitions, useless, 34Punishment, corporal, 54indiscriminate, 55natural, 29object of, 40self, 34Questions, answers to, 160Quick temper, 35Real disobedience, 33faults, 28Reflex grasping, 7Regular allowance, 127Religious enthusiasm, 135excitability of adolescence, 136training, 131Remedy for fits of temper, 36Responsibilities of fathers, 154Restrictions of dress, 79Rhythmic movements, 86Richter's views, 28,87Right doing, 28made easy, 63Righteousness, meaning of, 72Right material for play, 79Rights of others, 64Rules in character building, 74Rupture, cause of, 21Sand piles, 80Scientific education, 121Self-distrustful child, 160Selfishness, 43Self-mastery, 29punishment, 34Sewing, 98Sex, 71mystery of, 72question, the, 149Showy accomplishments, 123Simple diet, 25Sleep, sufficient, 19Social advantages of kindergarten, 113Soft spot in head, 4Solitude remedy for temper, 36Songs for children, 86Spencer's view, 29Spending foolishly, 128wisely, 127Standard of morality, double, 53Standing, 14Stanley Hall's views, 137Stealing, 168Stockinet for undergarments, 22Story telling, 93Studies, abstract, 119and accomplishments,119correlation of, 121Success in child training, 143Sullenness, 38Sunday school, disadvantage of, 134effect of, 132teachers, 131Sunlight necessary for growth, 16Sympathy and imagination, 110in play, 79Symptoms of anaemia, 47Systematized duties, 37Talent, natural, 124Teaching mother, 92Telling stories, 93Temperament, emotional, 42Temperature of nursery, 18Temper, cause of, 35precautions to prevent attacks of, 37Temporary faults, 24Theater, 108Theory before practice, 161Thermometer in nursery, 18Throwing, 10Tiedemann's teachings, 35Touching forbidden things, 11Toys, 83,88,89Training, financial, 126for parents, 142religious, 131Truthfulness, obligations of, 38Unconscious influence, 157Underclothing, 22Undesired food, 11Undisciplined will, 30Unresponsiveness, 38Unsought advice, 148Untidiness, its remedy, 49Useless commands, 11prohibitions, 34Value of children's clubs, 45Vanity, parental, 125Variable periods of growth, 15Ventilation, means of, 18Walking, 14Water as a plaything, 82colors, 99Weak lungs, 21Weight at birth, 4Wholesome surroundings, 16Will, beginnings of, 7breaking, the, 29growth of, 8Willful child, 34Willing industry, 94Will, undisciplined, 30Work, beautiful, 96love of, 93Wrappings, extra, 21