Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • I. The effect of social relationships upon the individual
  • II. The meaning of individual freedom in a democratic society
  • III. The social experiences of the infant
  • IV. The cumulative effect of social experiences on the developing personality
  • V. Language development in early childhood
  • VI. Speech as a factor in mental health
  • VII. Mechanisms of social control by the parent and by the child
  • VIII. The child who retreats
  • IX. Kinds of social behavior which annoy parents and teachers
  • X. The childʹs attitude towards his own and othersʹ property
  • XI. Social experiences at the nursery, kindergarten and primary school
  • XII. Social development of pre - adolescent children
  • XIII. The adolescent and his home
  • XIV. Parent - child relations with respect to the childʹs increasing independence from birth to maturity
  • XV. The childʹs behavior as it reflects the social attitudes of the home
  • XVI. References and work materials
  • Bibliography