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The Story of the Nursery (Hardcover)
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The Story of the Nursery (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Early Years
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Originally published in 1958, this reconstruction of the lives of
young children of nursery age is an excursion into the past, from
the Middle Ages to the opening years of the twentieth century. It
tells of the methods, often extraordinary to our ideas, by which
they were brought up from babyhood to about seven years old, their
clothes, diet, the fearsome remedies that were inflicted on them in
illness, their toys, games, books and first steps in education. It
shows how the pristine simplicity of the child's nature, which
hardly alters throughout the centuries, was moulded by the pressure
of the adult society around them into some semblance of the
accepted contemporary type. This story of the nursery is not only
about young children, but about their parents too. There are
parents in it who are stern, harsh, even cruel, and many more
loving and careful ones; but one thing strikes us in these parents
of former times: there is an air of unassailable confidence and
certainty about them that the modern parent, versed in child
psychology, would find it hard to achieve. As one
seventeenth-century worthy put it, 'For that which always happens
in a concerne so universall as breeding children must needs be
provided for by a traditionell method of proceeding.'
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