Your Child Today and Tomorrow

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YOUR CHILD
TODAY AND TOMORROW

YOUR CHILD
TODAY AND TOMORROW
SOME PROBLEMS FOR PARENTS CONCERNING
PUNISHMENT REASONING LIES IDEALS AND AMBITIONS
FEAR WORK AND PLAY IMAGINATION SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
OBEDIENCE ADOLESCENCE WILL HEREDITY

By
SIDONIE MATZNER GRUENBERG

Second Revised Edition Enlarged
WITH A FORWARD BY BISHOP JOHN H. VINCENT Chancellor of
Chautauqua Institution
WITH 12 ILLUSTRATIONS
1912, 1913, 1920

TO HER WHOSE DEVOTION AND UNTIRING EFFORT
TOWARD AN INTELLIGENT UNDERSTANDING OF HER
CHILDREN HAVE EVER BEEN AN INSPIRATION,
MY MOTHER
AND
TO MY CHILDREN
WHOSE CONTRIBUTION TOWARD MY EDUCATION HAS
BEEN GREATER THAN THAT FROM ANY OTHER SOURCE,
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
In the sad years that have intervened since this book was published, we
have all been impressed by the brilliant achievements of science in
every department of practical life. But whereas the application of
chemistry and electricity and biology might, perhaps, be safely left to
the specialists, it seems to me that in a democracy it is essential for
every single person to have a practical understanding of the workings
of his own mind, and of his neighbor's. The understanding of human
nature should not be left entirely in the hands of the specialists--it
concerns all of us.

There is no better way for beginning the study of human nature than by
following the unfolding of a spirit as it takes place before us in the
growth of a child. I am humbly grateful of the assurances received from
many quarters that these chapters have aided many parents and teachers
in such study.
In the present edition I have made a number of slight changes to
harmonize the reading with the results of later scientific studies; there
is a new list of references and some new material in the chapter on sex
education; and there is a new chapter suggesting the connection
between the new psychology and the democratic ideals of human
relations.
SIDONIE MATZNER GRUENBERG.
March, 1920.

PREFACE
In my efforts to learn something about the nature of the child, as a
member of child-study groups, and in my own studies, I have found a
large mass of material--accumulated by investigators into the
psychology and the biology of childhood--which could be of great
practical use to all concerned with the bringing up of children. In this
little book I have tried to present some of this material in a form that
will make it available for those who lack the time, or the special
training or the opportunity to work it out for themselves. It has been my
chief aim to show that a proper understanding of and sympathy with the
various stages through which the child normally passes will do much
toward making not only the child happier, but the task of the parents
pleasanter. I am convinced that our failure to understand the workings
of the child's mind is responsible for much of the friction between
parents and children. We cannot expect the children, with their limited
experience and their undeveloped intellect, to understand us; if we are
to have harmony, intimacy and cooperation, these must come through
the parents' successful efforts at understanding the children.

In speaking of the child always in the masculine, I have followed the
custom of the specialists. It is of course to be understood that "he"
sometimes means "she" and usually "he or she."
It has been impossible