Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young: On Parental Authority Established Without Violence or Anger
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 49 full-page plates by Mary Cassatt, Albert Bierstadt and Robert Seldon Duncanson. A manual for parents that argues, in 1871, against beating children — and sets out instead how to secure obedience by reason, habit and consistency. Jacob Abbott had run schools for forty years and wrote it as a practical book, with dialogues showing what to say and what not to. It was the most sensible thing on the subject in its century and much of it is still usable. Forty-nine plates of mothers and children by painters such as Mary Cassatt and Eastman Johnson give the book's scenes of family life a visual counterpart across the nineteenth century.
Complete and unabridged, with 49 full-page plates by Mary Cassatt, Albert Bierstadt and Robert Seldon Duncanson. A manual for parents that argues, in 1871, against beating children — and sets out instead how to secure obedience by reason, habit and consistency. Jacob Abbott had run schools for fo...
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Jacob Abbott (1803–1879) was a Maine minister and schoolmaster who wrote some two hundred books for children, of which the Rollo stories are the best known: a small boy is shown the world, and the reader is trusted to draw the moral.
Jacob Abbott (1803–1879) was a Maine minister and schoolmaster who wrote some two hundred books for children, of which the Rollo stories are the best known: a small boy is shown the world, and the reader is trusted to draw the moral.
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