Advances in Understanding the Child
- Author:
various contributors, with a Foreword by
Crichton Miller. Published by Home aI1 School Council, 29, Tavistock Square, W-^’ 1 /-, post free, 1/2.
In Dr Crichton Miller’s Foreword to this book, he expresses the hope that the Pape , and Study Circle Outline which follow, will ?th parents and teachers to ensure in the child’s P ringing the seemingly incompatible elements “-freedom and discipline, self-expression and sponsibility, creativeness and method, imagin. !?n and reproduction, individuality and social a]Ustment?Mens sana in corpore sano in a ?Und community!
q The challenge is always to the adult,” says ? A. Lynward in his summary and any parent teacher who reads this book is liable to be arr?wed by a humiliating sense of his own un0rthiness. He learns that because of his lack i. real understanding, his obtrusive affection, ?ls adult conception of right and wrong, his r?gant indispensability?all these are largely sponsible for the problem child and the uneveloped adult of the next generation. But book does not leave him there, for each ^cle is full of helpful suggestions for guiding e child into the ways of confidence, helpfuless> honesty, truthfulness and thoroughness, ^ helping him to avoid those anti-social H alities of fear, cruelty, stubbornness and jealousv J-ne article on Reward and Punishment is Particularly helpful. How far are deterrents and j Centives justifiable? Anyone with experience q dealing with small children will support eraldine Coster’s contention that ” the modern *nt or teacher in his anxiety to be humane reasonable, frequently misses the point that 0rt> sharp penalties are much healthier than ^nstant appeals to the moral sense or to the ections “?and that ” sustained moral disjypval ” is more harmful than many of the fashioned punishments.
sta .he helpful suggestions for a better undernding of the child seem to spring from one c^rce. In his Preface, Lord Allen of Hurtwood Cf s it: ” the right feeling which in its turn ch’nf. *rue understanding of the needs of the d-” Love is the key-word?an understandPatient love which recognises the immaturity Ce .e child and can watch it grow through sucSlVe phases with a trust in its inherent right^ s- Happy is the child in such an environMtV ^?r ^rom the first, he will experience ” joy the Security,” a friendliness irradiating from circle ?f his home and school to the ^ in which he will live as an adult.
tici iecause ?f its clearness and simplicity?pararty its lack of difficult psychological terms Par 6 k??k may be happily recommended to any hi’iv611* or teacher who is willing to discipline “lms? to guide a child. C.L.C.
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