Handicaps of Childhood

H. ADDINGTON BRUCE
Author of Psychology and Parenthood, The Riddle of Personality, etc.
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1921

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, INC.

TO MY FATHER JOHN BRUCE IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF BOYHOOD JOYS AND ADVANTAGES


It is my hope that this book will be read as a companion-volume to Psychology and Parenthood, it being designed to amplify and supplement that earlier work. Its general aim, accordingly, is to present additional evidence in support of the central doctrine of Psychology and Parenthood, —namely, that, in view of the discoveries of modern psychology with regard to individual development, the mental and moral training of children by their parents ought to be begun earlier, and be carried on more intensively, than is the rule at present. But whereas in Psychology and Parenthood the emphasis was chiefly on the importance of early mental training, the chief concern of the present book is to demonstrate the importance of early training in the moral sphere.