The special circumstances of the present war cause surprisingly little change in the basic structure of a parent-child relationship. Whatever can be said in peacetime about the profound importance of the way this relationship is developed is equally applicable in wartime. Nevertheless it is of the utmost moment that whatever can be said, be said convincingly, repeatedly, and in specific reference to current events.

Mrs. Wolf, the author of the superb Parents' Manual, has met this need with another wise and informed distillate of the most valuable data from the field of child study for popular consumption. In this book she discusses such topics as the education of children to the realities of strife and danger, the reaction of the child to the father's 'going away to war', the timid adolescent who fears cowardice, war work for mothers, and many other topics