Farm Boys and Girls
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Chapters (507)
- FARM BOYS AND GIRLS BY WILLIAM A. McKEEVER
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- FARM BOYS AND GIRLS
- CHAPTER I BUILDING A GOOD LIFE
- What is a good life?
- Is the human stock comparatively sound?
- CHAPTER II THE TIME TO BUILD
- What of the human instincts
- CHAPTER III THE RURAL HOME AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
- What agencies build up character?
- Moving to town for the children
- A back-to-the-country club
- CHAPTER IV THE COUNTRY MOTHER AND THE CHILDREN
- Poor conditions of women
- For the sake of the children
- CHAPTER V CONSTRUCTING THE COUNTRY DWELLING
- Plans and specifications not available
- What appeals to the children
- The house plan
- How one farmer does it
- Outbuildings and equipment
- Human rights prior to animal rights
- The children’s room
- The evening hour
- CHAPTER VI JUVENILE LITERATURE IN THE FARM HOME
- How good thinking grows up and flourishes
- Types of literature
- A SELECTED LIST
- CHAPTER VII THE RURAL CHURCH AND THE YOUNG PEOPLE
- Decadence of rural life
- Work for the ministry
- The country minister
- A mistake in training
- Rural child-rearing
- The churches too narrow
- Constructive work of the church
- An innovation in the rural church
- Spiritualize child life
- A summary
- CHAPTER VIII THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RURAL SCHOOL
- Radical changes in the view-point and method
- All have a right to culture
- Work for a longer term
- Compulsory attendance laws needed
- Better schoolhouses and equipment
- A model rural school
- The Cornell schoolhouse
- Help make a school play ground
- General instruction in agriculture
- Domestic economy and home sanitation
- Consolidation of rural schools
- More high schools needed
- Better rural teachers needed
- CHAPTER IX THE COUNTY YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
- Boys leave the farm too young
- Purposes of the County Y.M.C.A.
- How to organize a county association
- How to conduct the work
- Spirituality not lost sight of
- Work in a sparsely settled country
- CHAPTER X THE FARMER AND HIS WIFE AS LEADERS OF THE YOUNG
- Preparation for the service
- Work persistently for social unity
- Corn-raising and bread-baking clubs
- Other forms of contests
- The improvement of the school situation
- Home and school play problems
- A neighborhood library
- Holidays and recreation for the young
- Many over-work their children
- Federation for country life progress
- The vocations of boys and girls
- Other local possibilities
- The boy-scout movement
- Rural boy-scouts in Kansas
- CHAPTER XI HOW MUCH WORK FOR THE COUNTRY BOY
- See that the work is for the boy’s sake
- Not enforced labor, but mastery
- Provide vacations for the boy
- A tentative schedule of hours
- Think out a reasonable plan
- CHAPTER XII HOW MUCH WORK FOR THE COUNTRY GIRL
- A balanced life for the girl
- Work begins with obedience
- Working the girls in the field
- Some specific suggestions
- Do you own your daughter?
- Difficult to make a schedule
- Teach the girl self-supremacy
- Summary
- CHAPTER XIII SOCIAL TRAINING FOR FARM BOYS AND GIRLS
- A happy mean is needed
- A social renaissance in the country
- Conditions to guard against
- A center of community life
- Invite the young to the house
- How to conduct a social entertainment
- What about the country dance
- Additional forms of entertainment
- Some concluding suggestions
- CHAPTER XIV THE FARM BOY’S INTEREST IN THE BUSINESS
- What is in your boy?
- Much experimentation necessary
- Start on a small scale
- Give your son a square deal
- Keep the boy’s perfect good will
- Some will be retained on the farm
- The awakening often comes from without
- An awakening in the south
- Partnership between father and son
- Summary and concluding suggestions
- CHAPTER XV BUSINESS TRAINING FOR THE COUNTRY GIRL
- Is the country girl neglected?
- Why the girl leaves the farm
- Certain rules to be observed
- Should there be an actual investment?
- CHAPTER XVI WHAT SCHOOLING SHOULD THE COUNTRY BOY HAVE?
- Changes in rural school conditions
- The boy a bundle of possibilities
- Classes of native ability
- The great talented class
- Round out the boy’s nature
- Other important matters
- Develop an interest in humanity
- CHAPTER XVII WHAT SCHOOLING SHOULD THE COUNTRY GIRL HAVE?
- Special problems relating to the girl
- Protecting the girl at school
- Lessons in music and art
- The reward will come in time
- The mother’s office as teacher
- Home-life education
- Education for supremacy
- An outlook for social life
- CHAPTER XVIII THE FARM BOY’S CHOICE OF A VOCATION
- Should the farmer’s son farm?
- Impatience of parents
- What of predestination?
- Three methods of vocational training
- The farmer fortunate
- What college for the country boy
- The foundation in work
- Clean up the place
- Money value of an agricultural education
- A successful vocation certain
- CHAPTER XIX THE FARM GIRL’S PREPARATION FOR A VOCATION
- What is the outlook
- Desirable occupations for women
- A college course for the girl
- Associations with refined young men
- Make the daughter attractive
- Summary and conclusion
- CHAPTER XX CONCLUSION, AND FUTURE OUTLOOK
- Strive for preconceived results
- Consult expert advice
- Meet each awakening interest
- Work for social democracy
- The outlook very promising
- The modern service training
- The state doing its part
- The new era of religion
- Final conclusion
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