Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/childcultureinhoOOmoshrich Child Culture in the Home A Book for Mothers BY Martha B. Mosher 'The destiny of the nations lies far more in the hands of women—the mothers—than in the hands of those who possess power." Froebel. New York Chicago Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company MDCCC XCVIII Mr Cop3Tight, 1898 Fleming H. Rbvkll Company 3^7^ y TO MY OWN BELOVED CHILDREN, IN WHOM I THUS EXPRESS MY TRUST, I DEDICATE THIS MY EFFORT JN BEHALF OF OTHER CHILDREN. MARTHA B. MOSHER. —He who helps a child helps humanity with a dis- tinctness with an immediateness, which no other helpy human creatures in any other stage humangiven to of canpossibly give again.life Phillips Brooks. CONTENTS. PAGECHAPTER 11 rI. The Emotions 22 "VvII. The Moeal Sense 33III. Heredity and Environment 46IV. The Training of the Senses .... 60V. The of the Will 74VI. Punishment and Reward 85VII. The Value of Play "^ 102VIII. Self-reliance 113 "S-IX. Character 129X. Culture 144XI. Language and Literature 164XII. Manners XIII. Habits of Childhood ....... 182 H XIV. of Youth 196 )^ 210XV. Domestic Economy 222DutiesXVI. Civic PREFACE The best promise for to-morrow lies always fulfilment of the opportunities ofin the best to-day.
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/childcultureinhoOOmoshrichChild Culture in the Home A Book for Mothers BY Martha B. Mosher 'The destiny of the nations lies far more in the hands of women—the mothers—than in the hands of those who possess power." Froebel. New York Chicago Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company MDCCC XCVIIIMr Cop3Tight, 1898 Fleming H. Rbvkll Company 3^7^ y