Excerpt from How to Know Your Child I can hardly remember the time when children have not been my chief interest - yes, and my business, too. When I was myself little more than a child, I daily had charge of a thousand chil dren on the first roof-garden playground opened in New York City; for years thereafter I had a free hand, in various educational institutions, to edu cate and develop the character of young children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.