parent 0 Htbraq . The Trend of the Teens BY M. V. OSHEA Professor of Education, The UniYersIty of Wisconsin and Educational Director, Mothers Magazine and H0me Life CHICAGO FREDERICK J. DRAKE CO. PUBLISHERS THE ADVENT OF THE TEENS. parents A series of practical books relating to the care and culture of the young, published under the editorial supervision of Professor M. V. OShea of the University of Wisconsin, Educa tional Director, and Mr. Paul E. Watson, Editorial Director, of Mothers Magazine and ome Life, in cooperation ...
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parent 0 Htbraq . The Trend of the Teens BY M. V. OSHEA Professor of Education, The UniYersIty of Wisconsin and Educational Director, Mothers Magazine and H0me Life CHICAGO FREDERICK J. DRAKE CO. PUBLISHERS THE ADVENT OF THE TEENS. parents A series of practical books relating to the care and culture of the young, published under the editorial supervision of Professor M. V. OShea of the University of Wisconsin, Educa tional Director, and Mr. Paul E. Watson, Editorial Director, of Mothers Magazine and ome Life, in cooperation with which magazine this Library has been prepared. FOKEW0RB The author of tills volume has served for many years as educational director of Mothers Maga zine Home Life and also as chairman of the department of education of the National Con gress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associa tions. During these years he has discussed a large number of problems of child training with parents and teachers whom he has addressed, and who have taken advantage of the opportunity offered by the Personal Service Bureau of Mothers Magazine and Home Life to seek coun sel and assistance in the rearing of their children. They have freely sought the authors advice and they have given him their experiences in employ ing various methods in the instruction and dis cipline of their children. It has been Ms custom to select the more fundamental and important questions asked by parents and teachers and sub mit them for investigation to groups of advanced students engaged in the study of child nature and education. It has generally turned out that the author has made practical suggestions to those who have consulted him, and they have in most cases made a trial of these suggestions and have 8FOREWORD reported the results to the author. In this way a great many concrete instances illustrating char acteristic traits of childhood and youth have been accumulated, and the outcome of different meth ods of dealing with them has been accurately recorded. In the preparation of this volume the author has chosen for discussion the more vital of the problems which have been treated in the manner indicated, and he has suggested how these may best be solved under the conditions existing in different types of homes, schools and communities. The author has kept constantly in mind that most parents and teachers are neither familiar with nor interested in technical psychology, biology, or hygiene. They are concerned with the immediate and pressing problems of guiding chil dren in their intellectual, physical, ethical and temperamental development. They wish to un derstand why children act in certain, ways and how they can most effectively divert them from wrong action. Parents and teachers are so en grossed with the concrete activities of childhood and youth that they have little time to consider academic questions pertaining either to the nature of children or to their training and consequently the author has avoided practically all merely theoretical exposition in this volume. He has confined the discussion throughout to typical situ ations which confront most parents continually FOREWOED 9 lii the upbringing of their children. He has used terms which can be understood by those who have had little or no study of psychology, physiology and related sciences, though the snggestions for child training given herein are based upon data derived from these sciences. The author has not allowedhimself to forget at any time that this book is designed for prac titioners who are every hour face to face with childhood and youth in the concrete, and who are training their children in some way whether right or wrong. He has undertaken the difficult task of applying science to practice without leading the practitioner over the technical ground upon which the practice is based. It would have been a sim pler matter to have dwelt principally in the realm of theory and only occasionally to have made practical application of scientific principles...
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