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Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young: A Classic Guide to Humane Discipline, Parenting, and Child Training

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young: A Classic Guide to Humane Discipline, Parenting, and Child Training

Abbott, Jacob

Hardcover

Health GeneralLiterary CriticismGeneral Science

ISBN10: 1515420655
ISBN13: 9781515420651
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young is Jacob Abbott's thoughtful nineteenth-century guide to raising, teaching, and guiding children without harshness or needless conflict. Written for parents, teachers, and guardians, the book argues that discipline is most effective when joined to patience, sympathy, consistency, and a clear understanding of a child's developing mind. Abbott rejects cruelty, humiliation, and impulsive punishment in favour of calm authority, moral influence, careful habit formation, and practical methods that help children learn self-command.

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