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Identifier: postureofschoolc00banc (find matches)
Title: The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Bancroft, Jessie H. (Jessie Hubbell), 1867-1952
Subjects: Child care School hygiene
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 99. —a grammar school boy in a primary school seat. intervals without fatigue. The essential value of this sittmgposition is that it places the pelvis in its natural relation tothe spine, so that the latter is not forced into unnatural curves.The position of the hands and arms when sitting at attentionai-e of much importance. The best position is with the handsresting naturally in the lap or on the seat at the sides. If for 258 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN disciplinary reasons the hands should be in sight, they should beclasped on the edge of the desk, as near to the body as possible,that the shoulders may not be drawn forward, or the chestnarrowed by stretching the arms forward.
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Fig. ioo. — Furniture of the right height. The habit of folding the arms behind, between the body andthe back of the seat, should never be allowed. If the buttocksand shoulders are kept in the proper position, this folding thearms behind forces the spine into the lordosis position (exag-gerated lumbar curve); for it is a mistake to think a child has a THE SCHOOL HYGIENE OF POSTURE 259 hollow in the back sufficient to hold the arms in this way. Inthe correct sitting position the natural lumbar curve is almostobHterated in children up to thirteen years of age, and nothingcould be worse for posture than to force it by this wedging ofthe folded arms between the child and the chair back. Other

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  • booksubject:Child_care
  • booksubject:School_hygiene
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