Keeping physically fit; common-sense exercises for the whole family (1916) (14781302282)

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Title: Keeping physically fit; common-sense exercises for the whole family
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Cromie, William J. (William James), 1877-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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encyto be rude, ill-natured, or to lie and cheat, heshould be promptly corrected. Ethical degen-eration is far worse than all the bruises, sprains,and broken bones caused by play and games.Parents should be careful not to praise a childfor a certain act one day and censure it for thesame another time, as no child can run its men-tal or moral train of thought properly whenthere is such a confusion of signals. Severe, arbitrary punishment is usually un-just and unwise. It has not proved itself aninspiration to goodness in the army and navyor in prisons. The child should always be al-lowed to speak in its own defense. Circmnstan-tial evidence, which plays so cruel a part inhuman injustice in many criminal trials, shouldbe carefully sifted in a nursery court-martial.By the time all the evidence is in, the judge(parent) has had time to grow calm, and makethe punishment awarded later seem a naturalact of justice. We see in children the image ofourselves, and quite often their naughtiness is
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Fig. 34.—The Great-Bend ExerciseWithout bending the knees, encourage the child to bendforward and touch the floor as in Fig. 34. Finish the exer-cising by using one or two deep breathing movements asillustrated in Chapter IV. 90 Keeping Physically Fit but the reflection of our own individuahty. Inthe teaching and punishment of the child we asparents should realize that we are merely trus-tees and not proprietors. This physical andmental training of the child should be startedearly in life, when the body and mind are veryplastic. It is easier to extinguish the hghtedmatch than the conflagration it inspires. It iseasier to straighten a saphng than the gnarledoak. CHAPTER IV DEEP-BREATHING EXERCISES Deep, purposeful breathing in the open airprevents the accumulation of fat, as it acts likea pair of active bellows on a furnace fire. Itquickens the digestive processes, eats up foodrapidly, and quickly gets rid of waste products. If, then, one fails to breath deeply he in likeproportion f