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The Child Study Association makes an effort in this book to bring together its experience of fifty years in giving guidance and advice to parents. Hundreds of parent's questions coming from the Association's study-groups, through the mails, and in personal consultations, have contributed to this symposium on the problems of raising children. The Association's Consultation Service has selected, arranged, analyzed and discussed these problems with the aim of spreading the results of their work to hundreds of parents to whom the service is not available. Undoubtedly it has already had a wide influence in spreading mental hygiene attitudes among literate parents who are aware of their need for aid.
Each question is approached in the light of important factors: home setting, child's personality, family relationships, and the parents' own problems. Advice and guidance is given on the basis of the dynamic factors at work. The many-sided aspects of child life which create problems for parents are discussed in brief expositions in each chapter and illustrated by questions and answers: problems of habit-training discipline, emotional development, the place of sex in childhood, spiritual growth, outside influences, such as that of newspapers, school, movies, friends. The aim is to present typical problems at age levels ranging from infancy to adolescence, and at the same time to transmit to the readers not only current knowledge about problems of childhood, but also an anxiety-free feeling with some insight in the real psychological issues. A telling story, placed at the end of each chapter, of a