Keeping physically fit; common-sense exercises for the whole family . leep, pure air, recreation, and the gladhand for whatever life brings you. CHAPTER III EXERCISE FOR THE GROWING CHILD In dealing with the subject ^^Exercise for theGrowing Child I shall also speak of the childsearly training in the mental, social, and moralaspects, as these and the physical cannot bedissociated. During the first few years of lifeall of these natures of the child can best be de-veloped through the agency of play. Play Life Before taking up the play life of the child, letus see if we can determine what play is
Keeping physically fit; common-sense exercises for the whole family . leep, pure air, recreation, and the gladhand for whatever life brings you. CHAPTER III EXERCISE FOR THE GROWING CHILD In dealing with the subject ^^Exercise for theGrowing Child I shall also speak of the childsearly training in the mental, social, and moralaspects, as these and the physical cannot bedissociated. During the first few years of lifeall of these natures of the child can best be de-veloped through the agency of play. Play Life Before taking up the play life of the child, letus see if we can determine what play is. Thereare four view-points in the theory of play, all ofwhich should be considered. The feeling fit,or overflowing with surplus energy, is advancedby H. Schiller and Herbert Spencer, whiledirectly opposed to this is the idea that play isan opportunity (Lazaruss theory) afforded forthe relaxation of exhausted powers. ProfessorKarl Groos claims that play is important in thedevelopment of the individual, while, opposingthis. Professor G. Stanley Hall explains play 59. Fig. 26.—Flaying boLDiERSThe Correct Standing PositionIn order to note whether the posture is correct or not,stand against a wall with head, shoulders, hips, and heelstouching it. Exercise for the Growing Child 61 as a rehearsing of ancestral activities. HerbertSpencer, in his ^^ Principles of Psychology/ inupholding the first of these four views, claimsthat ^^play is characteristic of nerve processes—that the superfluous integration of ganglioncells should be accompanied by an inheritedreadiness to discharge. This sounds quitetechnical; it means that on account of the ad-vanced development of man he has more forcethan is needed in order to digest, breathe, keepthe organic processes going, and is able to allowsome of his processes longer periods of restwhile others are being exercised. Imitation seems to be quite general in theplay of the child, who dramatizes the acts ofadults in the dressing of dolls and the b
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