Mental development and education . a minor role in the boys life. While thegirl is spending much of her time in devising articles for per-sonal adornment, the boy is competing with his fellows in running,jumping, cHmbing, wrestling, hunting, fishing, swimming, tak-ing hikes into the woods, shooting at birds and squirrels, mak-ing caves, playing baseball, football, building bonfires, steal-ing apples, raiding property, and so on. A discussion of the deco-rative activities of the girl and the adventurous activities ofthe boy will be undertaken farther along. M MENTAI. 1)K\ r AND HI )r(
Mental development and education . a minor role in the boys life. While thegirl is spending much of her time in devising articles for per-sonal adornment, the boy is competing with his fellows in running,jumping, cHmbing, wrestling, hunting, fishing, swimming, tak-ing hikes into the woods, shooting at birds and squirrels, mak-ing caves, playing baseball, football, building bonfires, steal-ing apples, raiding property, and so on. A discussion of the deco-rative activities of the girl and the adventurous activities ofthe boy will be undertaken farther along. M MENTAI. 1)K\ r AND HI )r( ATIOX lo return to a consideration of motive forces relating tophysical protection; the child is equipped at Mrtli with a well-developed mechanism for fear responses. The ear-Fear as a ^ _ _ ^ protective liest responses occur in reaction to loud noises;*^^* mothers well understand this and they seek to i)ro- tect their children from liarsh voices or slamming doors orheavy footsteps in the nursery, or falling objects, and so on. As. Fig. I. — Normal children are passidiiaiily lund of swimming, paddling in pools, andplaying games in the water. (Sec exercise 11, page 2g4.) the individual develops, the range of his fear responses increasesgreatly for a time and then it decreases. The year-old childnormally is afraid of all strange things — strange animals,strange people, strange places, strange situations of every is as though nature said to him : Danger lurks in every-thing which you do not understand. Deal with it close to your protector when you are in the presence of any MOTIVE FORCES IN DEVELOPMENT 15 new animal or person or in any unfamiliar situation. Run toyour mother when you hear the thunder or a strange voice inthe house or barking dogs or anything of the kind. Do notstray far from home lest you get out of reach of your be apprehensive in the dark. Do not go into or re-main in the dark alone because danger lurks in dark p
Size: 1851px × 1350px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjecteducation, bookyear19
