Advice to mothers on the best means of promoting the health, strength, beauty, and intellectual improvement of their offspring ...
By: by J. Baillie
Publisher: Printed and published by Mackenzie and Dent, St. Nicholas Church-yard
Published: 1812
Place of publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Women; Health and hygiene; Children; Child Care; Hygiene
Notes: Added engraved title-page with imprint date.
Table of contents: title: Section I. Hints to women before marriage ; Rules of conduct during pregnancy ; Observations on childbirth ; Strictures on rearing children ; The important influence of air ; Warm and cold bathing ; Children's dress ; The food proper for children ; Exercise and rest during infancy ; The abuse of medicine ; Dwarfishness and deformity ; Fatal effects of excessive fondness ; Accidents; title: Section II. Object of moral education ; Desires and aversions ; Origin of pride and vanity ; Improvement of the faculties ; The choice of toys ; Tasks ; Attention ; Books ; Arithmetic ; Memory and invention ; Taste and imagination ; Prudence and economy ; Remarks on public and private education ; Strictures on female accomplishments.