The point of view of this book is stated by the author in the Preface. The “current cult of mass medicine,” he says, “is addicted to the average as the guide in child rearing.” To him, each child is an unique individual, whose potentialities can be realized only by individualized care and training from birth through adolescence. It is the purpose of the book to set forth the methods of such individualized care. Dr. Kugelmass is not an environmentalist, but he is arguing, apparently, for the utilization of all our resources in the care and training of children, believing that in this manner the child who would otherwise be “just average” may be so speeded up in his development and have his personality so enriched that he may become what we are pleased to call a “superior” child.

The book considers the new-born, the infant, the child, and the adolescent, and purports to be a guide to development in the physical, intellectual and emotional fields during each of these periods. It contains