Identifier: studyofchild00hoga (find matches)
Title: A study of a child
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hogan, Louise Eleanor (Shimer), Mrs., 1855-1929. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Child study. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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out at the top of his voice, Old rags,old rags, any old rags to-day? When he had calledhis father he ran away from him all around the room,as if in mischief, and wouldnt even allow him to lifthim upon the bed, where he usually sits and watcheshim dress, and keeps up a running fire of commentsand questions that are very amusing. As soon as hesaw his mother come he let her place him on the bedand cover him. He evidently looks to her for disciplineand to his father for pure fun, which is as it should be.He loves her dearly, but as he sees her so much morefrequently than he sees his father, it seems a pity tospoil one minute of the time they are together by anattempt to assert authority. (The record shows that as he grew older he oftenspoke of the good times he would have with mammaand papa when he got big enough to take care of them.He once told me, after having heard fairy-stories aboutprinces and marriage, that when he got married hewould live with mamma, as he would never want to 132
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THE FIRST CHOO-CHOO 1S92 AND 1893 DRAWINGS AND CUTTINGS THE CHILD S EARLIEST EFFORTS His explanation of the first choo-ohoo was : A. smoke-stack; B, sand-box ; C,steam-drum; D, cab; E E, one line for boiler; F F F F, wheels. THIRD YEAR leave her. One of his greatest anticipated delights wasthat when he would be ten years old he could go topapas office and take the letters to the post-office.This wish on his part gave rise to a story that I told him— When H is ten years old, what will he do ? —and which he demanded repeatedly. It is worth not-ing that his greatest pleasure seemed to be that he couldthen help papa, just as he was now learning to helpmamma. Who will dare to say that Froebel did notunderstand children when he urged mothers to let themmake their hearts glad by allowing them to give pres-ents and by helping them to help others.) To-day I sat down for a moment in the kitchen, andas I was giving directions I took up and looked into acook-book that was lying on the table.

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