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THIS little book is by an authority competent to instruct as well as to adviser especting the practical and non-theoretical relationships which should exist between parent and child. Dame Mary Scharlieb with correct intuition speaks of the great burden, yet great honour, of bringing up children, and the necessity of guidance. Parents of all classes will find her conclusions of real help in child-management. Happily, the outlook is not that which prevailed during the War. Those qualified to judge found that the young suffered much from their mothers privations and anxieties. Children knew neither legend nor fairy-tale. There is a prefatory note by Mr. R. F. Graham-Campbell, a London magistrate, who sees much to commend in a chapter which deals with the action of conscience, the influence of suggestion, and of equable discipline upon juvenile delinquents.
The Psychology of Childhood: Normal and Abnormal.
Dame Mary
Scharlieb
By. Pp. xi + 194. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 6s. net.
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The Psychology of Childhood: Normal and Abnormal . Nature 120, 913 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120913d0
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