Our Children 



Hints from Practical Experience for 

 Parents and Teachers. By Paul Cams 

 Pp. 207. $1.00 net. (4s. 6d. net) 



In the little book Our Children, Paul Carus offers a unique contribution to peda- 

 gogical literature. Without any theoretical pretensions it is a strong defense for 

 the rights of the child, dealing with the responsibilities of parenthood, and with 

 the first inculcation of fundamental ethics in the child mind and the true principles 

 of correction and guidance. Each detail is forcefully illustrated by informal 

 incidents irom the author's experience with his own children, and his suggestions 

 will prove of the greatest possible value to young mothers and kindergartners. 

 Hints as to the first acquaintance with all branches of knowledge are touched 

 upon mathematics, natural sciences, foreign languages, etc. and practical 

 wisdom in regard to the treatment of money, hygiene and similar problems. 



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"Brightly written, broad-minded, instructive, this book deserves serious perusal and praise." 



CHICAGO RECORD-HERALD. 



" 'Our Children' has a value which it is difficult to exaggerate. The strong common sense of 

 the book as a whole can better be judged from an extract than from any praise of it, however 

 particularized. 



"It is difficult to conceive of anything coming up in relation of parent or teacher to a child 

 which does not find discussion or suggestion in this compact and helpful little book. It will be 

 an aid to parents and teachers everywhere an education for them no less than for the child." 



THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. 



"From my own personal point of view I can only welcome this volume in our pedagogical 

 literature and express the hope that it may become a household book in the library of every 

 parent and teacher." M. P. E. GROSZMANN, Pd. D., 



Director Groszmann School for Nervous Children 



"Mr. Carus writes in a most practical manner upon his subject, setting before the reader the 

 various problems common to all parents in dealing with their offspring. This book is admirable 

 throughout in the author's treatment of his subjects, as the book is built from the experiences 

 of parents and teachers and, therefore, cannot fail to be practicable." 



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"For the training of children I know of no book in which there is so much value in a small 

 compass as in this." THE TYLER PUBLISHING CO. 



"Little things are recommended that will appeal to the child's understanding and add to his 

 interest in his work." CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER. 



"Its author has given to the world a careful, loving, thoughtful set of rules which may be used 

 with profit in the bringing up of the young." 



THE MANTLE. TILE AND GRATE MONTHLY. 



"We feel certain that any parent who thoughtfully reads and studies this book will be richly 

 paid; and if the readers be parents with growing children they will keep the book by them for 

 frequent consultation; not for iron rules but for sympathetic suggestion." 



THE COMMERCIAL NEWS (Danville, 111.) 



"At once the reader knows that he is in touch with a mind that is accustomed to sincere and 

 deep thinking. The whole book is a plea for a serious notion of parenthood. The author touches 

 one topic after another with a fine sense of feeling for the 'warm spot" in it. 



"The use of money, square dealing, worldly prudence, sympathy with animals, treatment of a 

 naughty child, self criticism, and punishment, are some of the more important themes of the 

 book." TI1E SUBURBAN. 



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