ABSTRACT
Large numbers of men and women show a nervous instability that often has its roots in defective training and example during the opening years. Early education and control are necessary to check this growing tendency. Undesirable trends in infancy and childhood may land an adult in an unenviable mental condition. The nervous child is especially liable to become malajusted in the emotional field. Although many disturbing experiences in the young child’s mental and moral life may be long forgotten, their effects are held in the subconscious mind, and it may be years before a submerged emotion finds outlet in an indirect or surprising manifestation. Fathers and mothers with unstable character and flighty moods will find their children developing the same characteristics from imitation. Children must be guarded, as far as possible, from severe emotional shocks. Finally, the child cannot too early be taught to face reality and learn to appreciate the fact that life is a process of adjustment.
