Health in home and town . any cities began to remedy these startling conditionsand are still working at the problem. Child Welfare. — How can a child become happy,strong, and vigorous? We have come to see that thephysical education of a child should consist of threedifferent parts. First, a child needs every opportunityto grow normally. Athletics, swimming, rowing, wintersports, and gymnastics are all helpful. Gardening, play-ground games, camping, and scouting are health clubs and organizations, as the Boy andGirl Scouts, offer a valuable opportunity for self de-velopment. Sec
Health in home and town . any cities began to remedy these startling conditionsand are still working at the problem. Child Welfare. — How can a child become happy,strong, and vigorous? We have come to see that thephysical education of a child should consist of threedifferent parts. First, a child needs every opportunityto grow normally. Athletics, swimming, rowing, wintersports, and gymnastics are all helpful. Gardening, play-ground games, camping, and scouting are health clubs and organizations, as the Boy andGirl Scouts, offer a valuable opportunity for self de-velopment. Second, children need to be protectedfrom communicable diseases and prevented, if possible,from developing physical defects. Any existing defects THE HEALTH CAMPAIGN 303 should be early recognized and corrected. This maybe done through the medical inspection of , children need to be taught how to live health-fully and helped to form good habits of living. Thiscan best be accomplished through the cooperation of. Tooth Brush Drill the home, the school, and the boy himself. Specialtraining in the nutrition class, the tooth brush drill,the open air class, and other exercises may be of greathelp. The Boy Scouts. — What live American boy does notknow all about the Boy Scouts? How does scoutinghelp boys physically? It gives them many opportuni-ties in camping, hiking, swimming, and sports to developcharacter, muscle, nerve, and endurance. A scout takesthe oath, To keep myself physically strong, mentally 3°4 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN awake and morally straight. One of the scout lawsis, (iA scout is clean. He keeps clean in body andthought, stands for clean speech, clean sport, clean habits.
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