It appears to me to be beyond question that in childhood, and even in very early childhood, a sensation may sometimes be excited of the same kind as the voluptuous sensation of adult life.
Similarly in respect of many other qualities, alike bodily and mental, in respect of many inclinations and numerous activities, we find that in childhood sexual differentiation is less marked than it is in adult life.
The above outline of tentative school subjects representing as they do the solution of the problems of a specific industry signifies merely the starting point of an adventure for young people in the serious affairs of adult life.
From this it is evident that the knowledge of an orange, although a unity of experience in adult life, is really a complex, or synthesis, made up of a large number of different elements.
It was seen that at least in adult life, the perception of any object, as this particular orange, horse, cow, etc.
Similarly, we may cite the digestive neuroses of adult life to explain the common refusal of food and the common nervous vomiting of the second year of life.
We have already mentioned the symptom of negativism and noted its occasional occurrence as an accompaniment of mental disorder in adult life, and its frequency among children who are irritable or irritated.
In all our dealings with children we must know what we may legitimately expect from them, and judge them by their own standards, not by those of adult life.
The evil influence persists even up to adult life.
Thus far, I have considered the subject from the point of view of one who has been blind from early infancy, but now I shall view it from the standpoint of one deprived of eyesight in adult life, who is taking his first step in the dark.
She sends more male children into the world, as if to secure, on the whole, an equality of the sexes in adult life.
The large size of the head in adult life is foreshadowed in its size at birth, and this it is which constitutes the crux of motherhood among the higher races.
In general, the mothers of civilized races are the mothers of babies whose heads are larger at birth (as they will be in adult life), than those of savage babies.
For the play of adult life is an effort to find pleasure and relaxation in the dropping of serious purposes, in the "forgetting" of cares and worries, by indulging in excitement which has no fundamental purpose.
Only as the child grows older, and there is placed on him the burden of school work, does play commence to change its serious nature and partake of the frivolous character of adult life.
The simple reflex, immediate response to a stimulus, has only a limited field in human life or adult life.
Thus, bones are the seat of active vital processes, not only during childhood, but also in adult life, and in fact throughout life, except perhaps in extreme old age.
In old age, less sleep is usually required than in adult life, while the aged may pass much of their time in sleep.
In adult life, when the processes of digestion and assimilation are active, the amount of food may without harm, be in excess of the actual needs of the body.
Such a resource--the main prop of disciplined thinking in adult life--is not to be despised in training the young in right intellectual habits.
I am acquainted with numerous cases in which the idea of whipping, or the impulse to whip or be whipped, distinctly exists, though usually, when persisting to adult life, only in a rudimentary form.
But in dreams, even in adult life, she occasionally experienced sexual excitement accompanied by images of smacking.
And when we look at the schools, it is easy to get the impression that they accept this view of the nature of adult life, and set for themselves the task of meeting its demands.
What is to be prepared for is, of course, the responsibilities and privileges of adult life.
Team games appear to be the especial property of adolescents, for young children are more or less individualistic and solitary in many of their games, but boys and girls alike prefer team games from the pre-adolescent age up to adult life.
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