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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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onfor war, while to-day they stand for develop-ment and kindly competition. Just as we re-hearse and give vent to the savage activities ofour forebears in games, so can athletic contestsbetween nations take the place of war, which isof savage origin and belongs to a dead past. The Pedagogic View-Point The educational value of play has been rec-ognized from the time of Plato to the presentday. There are two ways of viewing the rela-tion of play to education. The instruction maytake the form of playful activity, or it may beconverted into systematic teaching. Instructionmay take the form of play, as in the hobbiesof adults aside from occupation, which are takenchiefly for the pleasure they afford. These maybe instructive and have aims entirely outsideof the sphere of play. The teaching of the youngchild, however, is different, as in the Froebelkindergarten system of instruction, because theoccupation or study is playful practice in prep-aration for the serious work of the higher grades.
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Fig. 31.—The See-Saw ExerciseBoth parent and child assume the ordinary standing pos-ture, holding hands. The child then performs deep kneebending as in the illustration (Fig. 31). As the child returnsto the starting position the parent lowers the body by bend-ing the knees. This exercise develops thighs and hips. Exercise for the Growing Child 79 The reason I have dwelt at length on the sub-ject of play is because every parent and peda-gogue should understand the fundamental prin-ciples concerning play and exercise, as playsand games differ in individuals, seasons, sex,and age. Play will bring out individuality anddevelop the physical and moral nature in chil-dren as can be done in no other way. Individuality Each child has peculiarities of mind, tem-perament, disposition, and character whichmake it an individual problem for the parentsto solve. A mother, in lamenting the failure ofhome discipUne in rearing children, may say,^I cannot understand it, as I have treated themall exactly

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