Homeschoolers' Comments
From the preface, "This little book is a growth. It was begun with no intent of making a book. Sixteen years ago there sprang into existence a "Home" for children which had as its raison d'etre something more than the mere purpose to supply food and shelter to needy little ones. The aim was to found and maintain such a home as should be in every particular in harmony with those natural and Divine principles of life which the Creator established at the beginning, but which are to very large extent forgotten and ignored.
With this end in view, and recognizing the evils which grow out of the ordinary institutional life of children, the little ones were grouped in families, each provided with separate, homelike apartments, and placed in the charge of a "mother," under whose watchful care and "mothering" they might be subjected to the sweet maternal influences requisite for normal development in the early years of childhood, and who might do for them, as far as possible, all that a natural mother can do, and even more than many do for their own, through the larger knowledge and greater skill and experience which may be acquired and utilized by the expert worker.
These "mothers"-earnest, willing, self-sacrificing women, who brought to their high and holy mission a whole-souled purpose to do their best for their charges-found their task no sinecure. Each individual child was an individual problem. The differing dispositions, tendencies, and habits, together with the effects of their previous education and environments, taxed their resources to the utmost. Thus, there arose a demand for special study and training to meet the needs of the work.
To aid these "mothers," and through them to benefit the children, a regular two-years' course of instruction was established, termed the "Haskell Home Training School for Missionary Mothers." The range of study is broad, including not only the physical care of children in health and illness, but their intellectual and moral nurture.
This book is an epitome of studies and lectures given by the author in this training school, and printed in response to the many requests from its members for the studies in permanent form.
The thoughts presented are not offered as altogether new, for the subject is as old as the race and has occupied the attention of the wisest minds, from Moses and Solomon to our modern psychologists. The author's aim has been to gather from reliable sources the best ideas of the deepest thinkers and to glean from the experience of others, as well as from her own, such thoughts and methods as have proved most helpful in cultivating and developing the essential elements of true character. This book brings them together in a convenient form for the use of mothers who appreciate their need of help to discharge acceptably the duties of their high calling, but have not the opportunity for extended study and research.
If in its pages these mothers shall find a light in some dark hour, a help in some time of need, a solution to some of the everyday problems, whereby they are enabled the better to accomplish their God-given task, this little book will have fulfulled its mission." -Ella Eaton Kellogg
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Studies in Character Building
Written over a hundred years ago, this book is full of wise child training advice about obedience, self-control, the education of appetite, truthfulness, employment for little fingers, nutrition and much more. The wisdom it imparts is simple yet profound. The author's aim has been to gather from reliable sources the best ideas of the deepest thinkers, and to glean from the experience of others, as well as from her own, such thoughts and methods as have proved most helpful in cultivating and developing the essential elements of true character; and to bring them together in a convenient form for the use of mothers who appreciate their need of help to discharge acceptably the duties of their high calling, but have not the opportunity for extended study and research. I was amazed at how this godly author came to scientifally correct conclusions regarding growth and development without the ‘aid’ of today’s experts. I really like it. Recommended by Elisabeth Elliot |
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