Seven Ages of Childhood (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Seven Ages of Childhood In this sketch of childhood I have divided the period from coming into the world to coming of age - prophetic names! - into seven overlapping periods. I will briefly anticipate these divisions to show the reasons for my classification and to suggest a few of the best available books on each period. The first, Infancy, is, students of childhood agree, the period of swiftest learning. Babies indeed sleep two thirds of the time, but how industrious they are when awake. A baby's life runs something like this: Study turning my eyes, eat, or rather drink, go to sleep, study the reactions of grown-ups, eat, go to sleep, learn to chuckle, eat, go to sleep, practise the fine art of clutching toes, eat, go to sleep, get said toes into my mouth, eat, go to sleep, study what grown-ups do when I drop things, eat, go to sleep, protest against soap in the eyes and mouth, resign myself, eat, go to sleep. It seems simple to an outsider. Yet all the vocational training and language drill that is driven in later, cannot vie for a moment with what any baby learns in his first two years. We find golf-playing a difficult and delicate bit of achievement, but what of standing when you have no acquaintance save with flatness and all-fours. 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.