Concerning Children

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Faith, a childish expression of, [56].
• Father, the, awake to the duties of social parentage, [283].
  • the choice of a, [264].
• Family, attitude towards the little child of the, [171].
  • -life, primitive mental habits fostered in, [169].
• Feminine conservatism, [169].
• Foolishness of youth due to our training, [21].
• French Revolution, the, [53].

• Games, the child's daily lessons, [108].
  • ethical sense shown in, [108].
• Generosity, teaching the child, [109].
• Girl, reason for the majority of a, at eighteen, [293].
• God, Hebrew traditions of, [34].
• Goths, the, [61].
• Grown people and children, [179].

• Habit and tradition, the home the stronghold of, [35].
• Hebrew traditions of God, [34].
• Home, the, the stronghold of habit and tradition, [35].
  • as a place for children, [130].
• Homes, the mother the domestic servant in the majority of, [233].
• Honesty lacking in child-training, [110].
• Horse-training, [71].
• Hottentots, the, [293].
• Household, physical conditions of the, a danger to the child, [238].
  • labour, mental capacities developed by, [247].
    • employment of skilled labour for, [276].
• Houses not built for children, [120].
  • built for the adult only, [121].
• House-service and child-culture, the relation between, [233].
  • qualities developed by, [243].
• Housework, few women like, [245].
• Human behaviour, the whole scale of, is natural, [256].
  • character, comparatively small progress in the, [251].
  • conduct, the word natural applied to, [257].
  • creature, mental workings of the, [50].
    • a self-governing intelligence, [40].
  • parentage, selfishness of, [178].
  • -parenthood, prolonged, [8].
  • progress, youth the fountain of, [21].
  • rights, children to understand the balance of, [188].
  • status, permanence of childhood as a, [119].
  • stock, improving the, [263].
  • being, the, a social constituent, [19].
    • who does not work contemptible, the, [275].
• Humanity, degrees of, [3].
  • to improve, [6].
  • the time to develop the inheritance of, [17].
  • progress of, made through brain improvement, [149].
• Humour, errors of the child not grounds for, [172].

• Impertinence of children, the, [175].
• Immaturity, biological advantage of a longer period of, [18].
• Impressions of a baby, the, [49].
  • of a child, early, [77].
• Improve, humanity to, [6].
• Improvement, race, transmitted, [4].
  • all possible, in the individual to be made before parentage, [21].
  • of the human stock, the, [263].
• Individual rights, maintenance of, by the mother, [195].
• Individuals, social service must be given by, [20].
• Infant mortality shamefully large, [246].
• Inheritance of constitution, our, [15].
• Intelligence, the human being a self-governing, [40].
• Instinct, parental, [177].
  • our dependence on the maternal, [263].
  • maternal, not sufficient to ensure good conditions to children, [267].
• Institutions, children in, [124].
  • mortality of children in, [126].

• Jesuits, obedience of the, [34].
• Justice, sense of, in children, [105].

• Knowledge and wisdom, the difference between, [54].
• Koran, the, [114].

• Labour, the employment of skilled, for household, [276].
  • household, mental capacities developed by, [247].
• Law of parental love, the, [177].
• Life, the brain in early forms of, [48].
• Lifetime, the most important decade of a, [18].
• Love for our children, our, [192].
  • the law of parental, [177].
  • open to measurement by results, [192].
  • mother, [193], [197].
• Lying to children, [102].

• Majority of a girl at eighteen, reason for the, [293].
• Man, the distinctive power of, [53].
• "Mary Don't," [59].
• Maternal instinct, our dependence on the, [263].
  • not sufficient to ensure good conditions for children, [267].
• Maternal passion, need for restraint of the, [197].
• Maturity, early, a sign of bad social conditions, [294].
• Mental capacities developed by household labours, [247].
  • habits, primitive, fostered in family life, [169].
  • workings of the human creature, [50].
• Methuselah, [158].
• Modification, race, and individual modification, [10].
• Moral sense, effect on the, of arbitrary punishment, [84].
• Mortality, infant, shamefully large, [246].
• Mind, effect of obedience on the growing, [37].
  • absence of, [54].
  • presence of, [54].
  • connection between the, and behaviour, [54].
  • of a child, the, [57].
  • effect of authority coming between the child's, and his action, [60].
• Mind-growth of the baby, the often neglected, [280].
  • failure of the mother to keep in touch with the, [250].
• Mother, the authority of the animal, [42].
  • necessity for the, to be grounded in ethics, [116].
  • and child, no separation of, [125].
  • the, not trained as an educator, [135].
  • and child, the need for consideration between, [187].
  • excessive sacrifice of the, injurious to the child, [193].
  • maintenance of individual rights by the, [195].
  • the domestic servant in the majority of homes, the, [233].
  • the natural, [258].
  • duty of the, to benefit the child, [261].
  • the "unnatural," [265].
• Mother's lack of respect for her little children, [179].
  • sacrificial devotion to the child, harmful effect of, the, [197].
  • personality, the place for a, [286].
• Mothers, the need for union among, [201].
  • benefits of discussion between, [207].
  • benefit of, observing other people's children, [204].
  • lack of educational perception among, [249].
  • the term natural as applied to, [258].
  • necessity for enlarging the responsibility of, [287].
  • public duty of, [288].
• Mother's Congress, the, [76].
• Mother-love, [193], [197].
• Motherhood, progress in, [261].
  • preparation for, [268].
  • work during, [271].
  • possibilities of combined, [284].

• Natural law, the wisdom of following, [43].
• Natural, the use of the word, [255].
  • the word, applied to human conduct, [257].
  • the whole scale of human behaviour is, [256].
  • the term, as applied to mothers, [258].
• Nature, a state of, [256].
• Nurse, the private, not a proper person to have the care of children, [132].
• Nursery, a public, suggested, [123].
  • isolation of the private, injurious to the child, [132].
• Nursemaids, difficulty of getting suitable, [212].

• Obedience, [27].
  • the use of, [28].
  • in animals, [29].
  • in human education, [29].
  • the reason for, [31].
  • our reverence for, easily traced, [32].
  • in child training, [36].
  • of the Jesuits, [34].
  • is demanded from the child, reasons why, [37].
  • effect of, on the growing mind, [37].
  • the injurious reaction from, [39].
  • consideration of others not identical with, [40].
  • effect of, on the brain, [41].
  • qualities developed by, [45].
• Observation of children, method of, [206].
• Old, the advantage of the young over the, [158].
• Over-indulgence of children, the, [75].