Concerning Children

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Concerning Children

Concerning Children

Table of Contents

I

THE PRECIOUS TEN

II

THE EFFECT OF MINDING ON THE MIND

III

TWO AND TWO TOGETHER

IV

THE BURNT CHILD DREADS THE SLIPPER

V

TEACHABLE ETHICS

VI

A PLACE FOR CHILDREN

VII

UNCONSCIOUS SCHOOLING

VIII

PRESUMPTUOUS AGE

IX

THE RESPECT DUE TO YOUTH

X

TOO MUCH CONSIDERATION

XI

SIX MOTHERS

XII

MEDITATIONS ON THE NURSE-MAID

XIII

CHILDREN AND SERVANTS

XIV

MOTHERS, NATURAL AND UNNATURAL

XV

SOCIAL PARENTAGE

Index

THE BOOKS OF CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON (Mrs. G. H. GILMAN)

WOMEN AND ECONOMICS

IN THIS OUR WORLD

THE YELLOW WALL PAPER

TALKS WITH BARBARA

THE THINGS THAT COUNT

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Again, with the animals, we have a case where it is essential that the young should act instantly under stimuli perceptible to the mother and not to the young. No explanation is possible. There is not speech for it, even if there were time. A sudden silent danger needs a sudden silent escape. Under this pressure of condition has been evolved a degree of obedience absolutely instinctive and automatic, as so beautifully shown in Mr. Thompson's story of the little partridges flattening themselves into effacement on their mother's warning signal.

With deadly peril at hand, with no brain to give or to receive explanation, with no time to do more than squeak an inarticulate command, there is indeed need for obedience; and obedience is forthcoming. But is this so essential quality in rearing young animals as essential in human education? So far in human history, our absolute desideratum in child-training is that the child shall obey. The child who "minds" promptly and unquestioningly is the ideal: the child who refuses to mind, who, perhaps, even says, "I won't," is the example of all evil.

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