Youth in ConflictRepublic Publishing Company, 1925 - 293 pages |
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Page 161 - This act shall be liberally construed to the end that its purpose may be carried out, to wit : that the care, custody, and discipline of a child shall approximate, as nearly as may be, that which should be given by its parents ; and, in all cases where it can be properly done, the child be placed in an approved family home, and become a member of the family by legal adoption or otherwise.
Page 97 - In searching for causes of maladjustment in school, it should be understood that it is trifles which make children happy or unhappy. These trifles are so easily overlooked that only persons with genuine insight into child-life can discover their existence and true role. Usually trifles are not slight or fortuitous sources of irritation, but they pierce back to some sensitive tap-root of feeling that arouses the entire personality to pain. They touch off a complex situation, often imbedded in the...
Page 44 - One would have thought it was the parents who were laboring under burden of guilt, while the children were calm and rather disinterested. Clearly the parents behaved as if the pillars of their family esteem had suddenly collapsed; dazed with surprise and humiliation they sat with bowed heads, utterly pitiable.
Page 249 - Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Page ix - A child who is busy with his play may not know you are talking to him. 2. Do you give many commands without meaning them? The child knows if you...
Page 163 - When a court is acting, not as an arbiter of private strife but as the medium of the State's performance of its sovereign duties as parens patriae and promoter of the general welfare, it is natural that some of the safeguards of judicial contests should be laid aside.
Page 74 - ... capacity of the father. But the damage is more extensive and may permanently destroy the child's mental health. No amount of "patching it up" or "returning to live together for the sake of the child" can restore the child if there is an undercurrent of hostility, suspicion, and dislike between the parents. For little children are not so much influenced by words and actions of adults as by attitudes (p.
Page v - When we have sufficiently determined casual relations we shall probably find that there is no individual energy, no unrest, no type of wish, which cannot be sublimated and made socially useful. From this standpoint the problem is not the right of society to protect itself from the disorderly and anti-social person, but the right of the disorderly and anti-social person to be made orderly and socially valuable.
Page 221 - Waters writes that the true value of correctional education consists in the following : 1. Vigorous and joyous health, a sense of physical well-being. 2. Emotional adjustment, a correct understanding of the individual by himself. 3. The restoration of confidence and the respect of the individual for his own personality. This is best accomplished by the discovery of tasks within the strength and capacity of the young person, tasks the performance of which wins merited approval from the group.
Page 147 - Sunday in a club or gaming shall forfeit three guilders zeawant; and if any children be caught on the street playing, racing and shouting, previous to the termination of the last preaching, the officers of the law may take their hat or upper garment, which shall not be restored to the parents, until they have paid a fine of two guilders.