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Child Study and Training
1916
Home-making and the rearing of children is the fundamental business of thisworld. To make a success of this business we must understand it. The lovinghearts of many parents are suffering for a multitude of mistakes thatloving intelligence might have prevented. We cannot save our children inignorance. To perform the duties of parenthood well, we must understandthem more clearly. We need light and uplift. These days demand greaterknowledge than ever before on the part of parents to meet and master theproblems that now confront fathers and mothers.
Particularly do we need to study child nature. A clearer understanding ofthe laws governing the development of children would give parents greathelp in guiding their children into paths of righteousness, and inministering to varying child needs as they develop.
To give definite help and new spirit to our work, this volume has beenprepared. The keynote of the book is a more enlightened parenthood. Itoffers a series of lessons along a line most vital to parents—Child Studyand Training.
These lessons have been written for us by Mosiah Hall, Associate Professorin Education of the University of Utah, and High School Inspector for theState of Utah. We feel that he has done for our cause most excellentservice, and we gladly acknowledge our indebtedness to him.
This should be remembered: A book gives wisdom only in proportion to thethought that is put into it by the reader. The suggestions of this volumewill become rich only as they are enriched by study. They will becomevaluable only to the extent that they find application in our daily lives.The lessons will be vitalized only as the teacher pours life into them.
To supplement and enrich the course, references are given with most of thelessons, and a list of books is offered at the close of the book. Many ofthese volumes have already been purchased and distributed through theparents' class library. Each class should endeavor to procure at least onecopy of each of these books as it is called for in the various lessons. Inthis way a good library can be gradually built up.
Our desire is to make these studies bring lasting returns for good. May Godadd his blessings to make our work divinely successful,
Your brethren in the gospel,
Parents' Class Committee of Deseret Sunday
School Union Board,
HENRY H. ROLAPP, HOWARD R. DRIGGS.
NATHAN T. PORTER, EPHRAIM G. GOWANS.
This treatise on child study and training has been prepared primarily forthe Parents' classes in Sunday School under the direction of the GeneralBoard. It is well adapted also for study by Parent-Teachers' Associationsand for reading in the home.
Its purpose is to acquaint parents with the most vital problems of childlife and character and to suggest some methods of solving these problems.The work is not offered as a complete course in this great subject; it isintended rather to open up the field of child study for parents.
The welfare of the race depends upon the pro