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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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fundamental instincts of nature to secure for them the motoractivity and the rehef from strain that have a deep physiologi-cal and educational significance. The cKmbing instinct of veryHttle children is a part of this, and should be respected and pro-vided for, as was done some time ago in the invention of aclimbing high chair. It is not meant that children shouldmake themselves disagreeable, or fail of control through indul- Ii8 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN gence in restlessness, but that an undue suppression of it is apositive harm and even cruelty to the child. Good posture, then, does not mean one unvarying attitudeheld through all the waking hours. It means the habitual car-riage, and especially that when the body is in the erect attitudeit shall be truly erect. Transitory twisting and turning, stoop-ing and bending, if not long maintained, but only for temporaryrelief, are natures own way of relieving the strain of mans lastand proudest achievement, erect carriage of the body.
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Titian Plate XIV. —A Daughter of the Artist Strozzi. CHAPTER XIII HOW TO CORRECT POOR POSTURE: WHAT MAY BE DONEAT HOME; TRAINING THE MUSCULAR SENSE Nagging is the worst possible way of correcting posture;and yet from time immemorial it has been a method to whichalmost every child whose posture has had attention has beensubjected. The foregoing chapters have failed of their purposeif they have not made plain that nothing could be more unjustor even cruel to a child than to expect him to correct, solely byspasmodic effort of his will, faults incidental to the shape, weak-nesses, and development of his body in the process of growth.Systematic training, especially designed to cultivate the rightcontours, to strengthen weak muscles, and to estabHsh correctneuromuscular habits, is the only proper way of achieving cor-rect posture; and, more than that, it is the only effective way ofreenforcing and training the will power that he must exert toestablish the right habits. The word systematic

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