Excerpt from Studies in Child Development: A Manual for Mothers and Mother's Clubs

During the past twelve years, in connection with the work of Mother's Child Study clubs, I have spoken many times to audiences composed of mothers. Among the things which have impressed me most strongly in this work is the fact that there are hundreds of mothers, especially young mothers, who appreciate the importance of securing a broader knowledge of their children, but do not know where to look for it. They know in a general way that experiments and investigations are being made along the line of child study and that books are being written upon the subject, but this material is slow in making its way into the public libraries and even there it is often not in a form as to be really available. Perhaps the first question asked when a mothers' club has been organized is, "What book shall we use as a basis for our study?" For a number of years I searched for such a book but failed to find it. Most of the volumes on child study contain valuable material, but either present it in too technical a form for the average mother, or present too much of the theoretical and too little of the practical to adapt the work to everyday conditions. At last I determined to prepare a book which should contain such material as seemed to be most needed and most often called for, a book which should answer the questions that have been asked me most frequently by mothers.

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