: Your boy and his training by Puller Edwin Seward - Child rearing; Boys

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Boy-problems are as universal as boys--Boys too often regarded as necessary evils--Necessity for training--How to study the boy--Tendencies in present-day education of children--Character- culture should come first--The home is the place and the parent the agency--Boys more difficult to train than girls--The boy's viewpoint--Parental indifference to boy-training--Each boy is an individual problem.

Causes of waywardness--Wrong training and bad environment-- Parental ignorance concerning boy-training--An instance-- Heredity--Accountability of the parent--Spending money--Laxity of discipline--Average parent not fully equipped for his job.

Table of psychic characteristics at several ages--Infancy and imagination--Early boyhood and individualism--Early adolescence and hero-worship--Later adolescence and thoughtful mental attitude--Age when puberty occurs--Period of motor activity.

Adolescence the period of storm and stress--Change from childhood to manhood--Puberty--Physical indicia--Mental indicia--Psychic disturbances--Truancy and wanderlust--Lack of continuity of purpose and action--Proximity to the savage state--Humor--Sex-consciousness and its manifestations--Love affairs--Plasticity of mind--Will-power appears--Age of discretion--Cycles of susceptibility to religious influences-- Age of experimentation--Hero-worship and its manifestations-- Object of hero-worship--Gratitude lacking--Reflective period-- Introspection--Sense of perspective is distorted--Visionary ambitions--Dislike of older boy for younger--Will-power, mental and moral stature attained.

Difference of viewpoint at differing psychic ages--Youth and age contrasted--The boy's desire for physical expression-- Inability for sustained mental or physical effort--Adult must put himself in boy's place to understand him--The natural adult leader of boys--Boy lives in the present--Parent must do child's thinking for him--Injustice to boy from failure to consider his standards.

Effect of nicotine on human organism--A physician's opinion-- Tobacco and the adult--Age when boys acquire the habit--Effects of tobacco on adolescents--Opinion of Dr. Seaver based on physical measurements of smokers and non-smokers--Cigarette most pernicious form of tobacco--Influences which actuate boys to acquire the habit--Poisons in the cigarette--Acrolein and carbonic oxide--Moral effects--Juvenile criminals are generally cigarette fiends--Methods used to dissuade boys from beginning-- Suggestion of a remedy for those who have contracted the habit.

Potent influence of books on the boy--Next to environment and companions--Two-fold value of literature--Desire of boy for something to read--He reads for entertainment; studies because compelled to--Reading must be suited to mental and psychological requirements--Fairy tales--Adventure tales--Informative books-- Dime novel and nickel library--Their effect on morals and literary taste--The bad book in the outward dress of good fiction--The psychological requirement for thrilling adventure tales--Comic Sunday supplements--Ideal companions for boys found in best books--Doses of literature as remedies for diseases of character--Stories of animal life--The juvenile magazine--A list of books useful for outlining a course of juvenile reading.

Importance of accurate sex knowledge--Misinformation acquired at a very early age--Necessity for scientific instruction--Former antipathy to discussion--Parent is natural teacher of sex-- Neglect of parental duty--Necessity for other agencies of instruction--Grammar schools, high schools, colleges, etc.-- Danger of premature sex excitation--Individuals who are best adapted to teach--Teacher, physician, biologist, special lecturer--Opinions for and against the school as agency for sex-instruction.

Periods in child's life when instruction should be given-- Instruction should be suited to his psychological requirements-- Mother should begin instruction--Method known as the biological approach--Nature and amount of instruction necessary--Father should assume instruction at puberty--Necessary admonitions-- Influence of theatrical productions with a sex-appeal--Musical comedies, burlesque and vaudeville shows--Sex-hygiene societies--A list of pamphlets published--A list of books recommended.

An instrumentality for reclaiming the wayward boy--The state formerly regarded delinquent boy as a criminal--New attitude toward dependent and delinquent children--Their mental and moral concepts not matured--Infractions of law are manifestations of moral disease which it is the state's business to cure--Child under sixteen cannot be a criminal-- Delinquent child is a ward of the state--The Juvenile Court-- Methods of dealing with boys--The probation officer--Laws for control of delinquent parents.

Every boy has inalienable right to be well trained--Basis of boy-training is parent-training--Insight, tact and patience necessary--Boy's need of father's companionship--Certain physical abnormalities affect intellect and character--Effects of heredity contrasted with environment--All boys possess a common nature--Summary of rules bearing on boy-training.

YOUR BOY AND HIS TRAINING

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