Our Children: A Handbook for Parents: Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg, Editors. Prepared and Sponsored by The Child Study Association of America. New York: The Viking Press, 1932. 348 p.

Books on the education of parents are needed—that is to say, education for parenthood is needed and books are one means. However, training for any career is easier than training for parenthood, witness the great number of thoroughly skilled workers in all the vocations who in the vocation of parenthood must get their training (if they get it at all) haphazardly, by trial and error. This is not merely because parents feel that they are to the purple born, but because the body of knowledge for parenthood, if not vaster than the systematized and organized knowledge of other recognized vocations, certainly delves deeper than these other sciences. It is harder to write a book in this field than to write, let us say, a compendium of history, of science, of literature or of medicine.

The Child Study Association of America has for years made a systematic collection of parents' questions about their problems with children. Evaluating these questions for their conscious content, that is, as indicating on the part of the parents a desire for information on the subject of children, the editors, Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Mrs. Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg, have, for the purposes of this book, classified the questions into four groups: 1. questions centered in the child's growth and development; 2. questions centered in the home; 3. questions centered in the school; 4. questions centered in the outside world. The difficulty of covering the vast surface of the material is partially solved by assembling the opinions of twenty-five specialists, on the child as a physical organism, on the psychological development of the child, and on the relation of school and educational problems to the child and his ultimate adjustment in