The mothercraft manual

by Mary L. Read

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The word “mothercraft” was coined by the author to express the comprehensive scope of the training. The word has since come into use in England in a narrower sense, including merely infant care. It is hoped that in America the use of the word may be retained in its larger significance.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author begs to acknowledge indebtedness and gratitude to many who have participated in the making of the book.

To the Messrs. Macmillan Co., Ginn Company, F. A. Stokes Co., and D. Appleton & Co., for permission to quote from their publications; to the American Medical Association Press and Dr. Roland G. Freeman for use of the graphs on growth; to Mr. William S. Bailey and The Nurse Studio for many of the photographs taken specially for this work.

Especially the author begs to tender sincere thanks for many criticisms, suggestions, and reviewing of manuscript to Dr. David Starr Jordan, Dr. William F. Snow, Professors Rudolph M. Binder, Willystine Goodsell, Robert M. Yerkes, and Mr. Paul Popenoe, on the sections dealing with the home and the family; to Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon for sections on maternity and infancy, Drs. Henry I. Bowditch, William Shannon, and William H. Burnham, for sections on hygiene and growth; to physicians and nurses at Battle Creek Sanitarium for assistance in the sections on nursing and nutrition; to Dr. William H. Park for revising data on communicable diseases, and to Professors Henry C. Sherman and Mary S. Rose for suggestions and for unpublished data on nutrition. Mrs. Anna Martin Crocker and Miss Sunnyve Carlsen have kindly given literary assistance. Helpful suggestions on the reading list have been furnished by science teachers of Horace Mann, Ethical Culture, Francis Parker, and the University of Chicago Elementary Schools. Miss Helen O. Rider and Miss Mary Scott Allen have rendered invaluable aid in criticism and clerical details. To the many others who have furnished technical data or read portions of the manuscript, the author here expresses thanks. Finally, the author would gratefully acknowledge the unfailing patience and kindly encouragement of the publishers. For such errors as may be found the author alone is responsible. Criticisms or suggestions from readers, which may improve the helpfulness or accuracy of the Manual, will be gratefully received.

MARY L. READ.

July, 1916.

CONTENTS

		PAGE
	Introduction	[vii]
	Preface	[xi]
CHAPTER
I	Mothercraft: Its Meaning, Scope, and Spirit	[1]
II	Establishing the Home	[10]
III	Finding the Means for Mothercraft	[20]
IV	Founding a Family	[29]
V	Growth and Development	[41]
VI	Preparing for the Baby	[62]
VII	Care of the Baby	[85]
VIII	The Physical Care of Young Children	[119]
IX	The Feeding of Children	[155]
X	The Education of the Little Child	[196]
XI	Studying the Individual Child	[223]
XII	A Curriculum for Babyhood and Early Childhood	[246]
XIII	Play	[264]
XIV	Games	[275]
XV	The Toy Age	[285]
XVI	Story-telling	[299]
XVII	Science and History	[309]
XVIII	Handwork	[317]
XIX	Music and Art	[329]
XX	Home Nursing and First Aid in the Nursery	[337]
	Appendix	[365]
	Bibliography	[381]
	Index	[425]