The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-21
HOME EDUCATION FOR MOTHERS IS
 TO BE PROMOTED.
Bureau of Education Cooper ates With National Congress of Mothers and Parent Teacher Associations to Reach As Many Homes As Possible.

Send all the information you can to these mothers. We are 15 miles from doctor. So many women die.s'
 Many women in this district live 50 to 100 miles from a physician" /
 We are 40, miles from town and need help for ourselves and our chill dren."
 we are 2s miles from the nearest post office. We need help.''
 Appeals like these received by the Bureau of Education from thousands of women throughout the United States In the past year indicate the need which mothers. especially in re- mote rural districts, feel for advice in the care and training of their chill the home-education division of the Bureau of Education has been estab- lisned. Its objects are: ITO help par ents in the home education of their children with reference to health, games, and play, early mental deye1- opment, and formation of moral ha- bits; to interest boys and girls, who have left school and are still at home. oy directing their home reading and study; and to further the education of the parents in the home.'f
 To help accomplish this the Bureau of Education co-operates with the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associati ons, with a view to reaching as many homes as possible. A series of bulletins on homes educational problems has been prepared and parents desiring advice in child nurture and home making may receive it from the Bureau.
 As a basis for further work the home education division has obtain ed 8 carefully selected list of women in all parts of the United States to CO., operate in extension of opportun- 4< home making. County superintend- ents of schools were asked to furnish the names of women in their com munities who could be depended up- on for a certain amount of initiative and leadership. Through the efforts of the 1.593 women thus selected and from other sources, 5px1e Bureau has been furnished with nearly 10000 names of mothers who feel the need of information on the care and home training of children anG 1t is with these 40, ,000 mothers that a beginning has been made.
 The bulk of the requests are for help in the problems of home maxim g and care Of the children. The moth CTS ask the Bureau for help in choosing literature, in reading cours- es for themselves and for their cEliI- dren. They ask for bulletins on 1 home matters,S' material for home study for boys and girls; literature on moral training; books suitable to children who have completed the common-school course; methods of bringing together the home and the schooli suggestions for forming sew ing and cooking classes; and informa- : ton necessary for organizing parent teacher associations.
 Some of the States. through pac- ket libraries and by other means, are reaching these people who are with out access to the usual sources Of in formation; but In most localities no effort is made to reach the mothers themselves with the facts that are essential to the sound development of the children and the home It is in this field that the hone education di- vision plans to do it's work, not by Interference with local conditions, but as a clearing house of information for State and local authorities.