The child’s conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every...

Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of...

Others, as a result of careful study, have come to the conclusion that the first two years are the most important in the whole span of human life.

All that we ourselves are has been made by the child, by the child we were in the first two years of our lives.

We then found that individual activity is the one factor that stimulates and produces development, and that this is not more true for the little ones...

All the social and moral habits that shape a man's personality...are formed during infancy, in virtue of that mysterious mental power that...

Once the child can speak, he can express himself and no longer depends on others to guess his needs. He finds himself in touch with human society, for...

It is after this that the child, who can now walk and feels confident of his strength, begins to notice the actions of those about him, and tries to...

This kind of activity (climbing, carrying etc), which serves no external purpose, gives children the practice they need for co-ordinating their...

The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the outside world and to absorb it.... By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own...