Reasoning: Reasons by association of circumstances, sequence of circumstances
Provide uniformity and consistency of sequences in handling and in daily care.
Language: Provide much spoken language, chanting and singing, after six months; repetition of sounds for baby’s direct imitation. Cultivate clear, distinct, correct enunciation.
After twelve months, teach gradually names of most common objects, members of family, most common verbs, adjectives. (A diary record of sounds, words, phrases, and sentences is both interesting and of assistance in teaching and noting progress during first four years.)
Æsthetic sense: Quiet colors, simple furniture and decorations in nursery
Variety of forms and toys, harmonious gay colors, attractive forms, features
Vivid standard spectrum colors in toys, pictures
Some large colored pictures in nursery; artistic; distinct; babies, cats, dogs; primitive Indian drawings