Two children of the foothills . mily life so lovingly and, suggestively portrayed in our two pictures,Margaret called my attention to the mottoeswhich form their borders as an evidence ofFroebels knowledge of psychology. Out of Mother Love, rightly used, grows Pious INTBODUCTION. 17 Feeling. Out of Mother Songs, explain-ing to the child the activity of the world abouthim, grows *Clear Thinking; out of Mother-Play, which gives expression to theever-increasing emotions and thoughts thatarise within the childs breast, grows NobleDoing. In these two mottoed borders canclearly be seen Froebels idea
Two children of the foothills . mily life so lovingly and, suggestively portrayed in our two pictures,Margaret called my attention to the mottoeswhich form their borders as an evidence ofFroebels knowledge of psychology. Out of Mother Love, rightly used, grows Pious INTBODUCTION. 17 Feeling. Out of Mother Songs, explain-ing to the child the activity of the world abouthim, grows *Clear Thinking; out of Mother-Play, which gives expression to theever-increasing emotions and thoughts thatarise within the childs breast, grows NobleDoing. In these two mottoed borders canclearly be seen Froebels idea of how theemotions, the intellect and the will appear inthe almost embryonic life of infancy; and alsohis unerring insight into what they will growif that infancy is lovingly nourished and wiselydeveloped. Taken as a whole, the following chapterswill show, in some degree, I hope, that the Mother-Play-Book is richly suggestive tothe mother or Kindergartner of how she maybring many of the Eternal Verities of lifeto her (20) Chapter II. THE FIGEON HOUSE. Our first experiment in introducing theMother Play Songs to the two children,came about in this way. We took them oneday for a long walk over the hiUs and througha deep canon. As they had never before beenoff of their fathers ranch, this was a greatevent to them — a real journey into foreignlands. They were intensely interested in ourgathering of the flowers, bits of moss, richlycolored bark, and other objects, which we gen-erally carried home for the decoration of ourcabin. They with true childish joy lingeredlovingly over each spot. Everything they sawhad the fascination which new scenes of lifealways have for children. When, however,we reached the point, on our return, atwhich their home came into sight, they bothstarted and ran as fast as they could toward the house, they sprang through theopen door and we could hear them shoutingfor their grandmother. Margaret turned tome with a smile and said: Surel
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