Beginning, pages 17-41

Letters from Anne N. Wilson (pseud.), dated March 4, 14, & 22, 1918

Replies from E. F. L., dated March 8, 18, & 25

This material was previously published, with some alterations, in the PTA's Child-Welfare Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (December 1922), pp. 146-50.

Differences between the magazine version and the book version:

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Beginning, pages 1-16

Letters from Anne N. Wilson (pseud.) dated February 14 & 21, 1918
Replies from E. F. L. dated February 17 & 27

This material was previously published, with some alterations, in the PTA's Child-Welfare Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 3 (November 1922), pp. 105-8.

Differences between the magazine version and the book version:

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Beginning, Preface

General notes:

Book is dedicated to Sir Esme Howard

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Summary of the Preface:

This book is based on the correspondence between E.F.L. and the mother of "Esther," a three-year-old child from a respected, well-to-do Eastern family with all the amenities of town and country life.   Many details of the family's life have been changed for the sake of privacy.

E.F.L says that she published them because one of her school assistants believed that mothers could benefit from this sort of book:

"'When you talk to them about beginning the child's education at home, their minds run to book lessons and nothing else.  How often does a mother write you that, although she graduated from college or normal school, there was nothing in her course that helped her understand her own children's needs or nature?'"

She also mentions a future project:

"Already I am overhauling my correspondence with the mother of a boy in the Middle West, for whom it was necessary to plan book lessons.  When this boy entered school at nine he was placed in sixth grade and a week later promoted to seventh.  The time given to daily lessons ran from fifteen minutes in the beginning, to two hours, but not more."

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and closes with encouragement that even the busiest mother can teach her children at home:

"If you are carefully teaching your young children for five minutes a day, you are doing more to give them a good education than the best college can ever do, because education takes its root in the wise management of the habit-forming period, the wonder-working period that reaches its greatest height between the ages of three and seven."

Educating, Chapter 13

Notes for Chapter 13, "Aids for Home Teaching" (see page images at the Internet Archive)

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Poetry

Longfellow, collected poems:

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Tennyson, collected poems:

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Macaulay, "Horatius at the Bridge"
Emerson, "The Mountain and the Squirrel," "Good-By, Proud World"
Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"
Joaquin Miller, "Columbus"
J. G. Holland, "Gradatim"
Milton, "Sonnet on his Blindness"
Whittier, "Snowbound," "Barefoot Boy," "In School Days"
Lowell, "Vision of Sir Launfal," "A Day in June," "First Snowfall"


Fairy Stories

Favorite Fairy Tales, illustrated by Peter Newell
Favorites From Fairyland, ed. Ada Van Stone Harris
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know, ed. Hamilton Wright Mabie
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, illustrated by Peter Newell


Books

Sketch Book, Washington Irving
The Story of the Rhinegold, Chapin
Travels at Home and Travels in History, selected from the works of Mark Twain
Boy Life, selected from the works of William Dean Howells, ed. Percival Chubb
Wonder Book, Hawthorne
Age of Fable, Bulfinch -- for reference & the mother's reading


Text-Books

The Children's Plutarch, F. T. Gould:  Tales of the Greeks, Tales of the Romans

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Nature Study and Life, Clifton Fremont Hodge
Sharp Eyes & Secrets Out of Doors, William Hamilton Gibson
Ways of the Six-Footed, Comstock
Upland and Meadow, Abbot -- especially for those in or near New Jersey

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Current Literature

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Books for Mothers

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The School in the Home, A. A. Berle (also by Berle, but not mentioned:  Teaching in the Home)

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Educating, Chapter 12

Notes for Chapter 12, "How to Teach the Retarded Child" (see page images at the Internet Archive)

Educating, Chapter 11

Notes for Chapter 11, "How to Evolve the Work-Habit" (see page images at the Internet Archive)

Educating, Chapter 10

Notes for Chapter 10, "Observation" (see page images at the Internet Archive)