Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

MP3 Audio CD. Including this caption, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the right development of the moral and mental capacities be promoted by methods in harmony with the structure and the characteristics of the juvenile mind." This narrative gives useful instruction on how to take care of children applying gentle measures that do not hurt the younger people?s feelings or sense of worth. Much of the guidance is as applicable and beneficial up to now as it was when released in 1871.

The book contains: Three Modes of Management; What are Gentle Measures?; There Must Be Authority; Gentle Punishment of Disobedience; The Philosophy of Punishment; Rewarding Obedience; The Art of Training; Methods Exemplified; Della and the Dolls; Sympathy:--I. The Child with the Parent; Sympathy:--II. The Parent with the Child; Commendation and Encouragement; Faults of Immaturity; The Activity of Children; The Imagination in Children; Truth and Falsehood; Judgment and Reasoning; Wishes and Requests; Children's Questions; The Use of Money; Corporal Punishment; Gratitude in Children; Religious Training; and Conclusion.

Jacob Abbott was an author of children's stories. Jacob was born in Hallowell, Maine. Jacob?s father was Jacob Abbott and his mother was Betsey Abbott. He studied at the Hallowell Academy.

Jacob finished studying at Bowdoin College in 1820. He enrolled at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824. He became a teacher in 1824?1825.

He was a successful writer, creating youthful fiction, short histories, biographies, spiritual texts for the common reader, and a number of works in general science. He made 180 books and was a cowriter or editor of 31 more. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent half of his life after 1839, and where his brother, Samuel Phillips Abbott, instituted the Abbott School.