Living With Our Children, A Book of Little Essays for Mothers

This book is a collection of small essays to help parents better understand their children and offer help to parents in the task of raising them. To quote from the preface, “It is hoped that the very simplicity and homeliness of method of this book may help eager, devoted, perplexed parents to realize that similarity in apparent diversity which underlies the experiences of different people, to perceive more clearly that the small affairs of childhood are really very large in their significance and that our way of dealing with them concerns far more than the present moment.”

By : Clara Dillingham Pierson (1868 - 1952)

00 - Preface 01 - Enjoying the Job 02 - Concerning Teasing 03 - On Having to Mind 04 - Laughter 05 - Motives 06 - Fatigue Problems 07 - Embarrassing Questions 08 - The Gentle Art of Managing 09 - The Root of Evil 10 - All-Aroundness 11 - Sunday Afternoon 12 - Wherewithal Shall We Be Fed? 13 - Primogeniture 14 - "Being Charming" 15 - At Bedtime 16 - Self-Expression 17 - Retribution or Reformation 18 - Making Our Own Bodies 19 - Great Words 20 - Fact or Fiction 21 - Joyful and Steadying Responsibility 22 - As Present, Yet Unseen 23 - The Reformatory Influence of a Frolic 24 - Constructive Criticism 25 - The Mind is its Own Place 26 - Courtesy 27 - A Liberal Attitude Towards Slang 28 - The Written Word 29 - Personal Possessions 30 - Self-Sacrifice 31 - Parental Prestige 32 - The Presence of God 33 - When the Children are Grown 34 - Interpreting Life