The posture of school children, with its home hygiene and new efficiency methods for school training (1913) (14778763615)

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



Text Appearing Before Image:
ies belongto any comprehensive and adequate scheme of physical train-ing, because of their effects on the general constitution as wellas for their other educational values. None of them, however,can take the place of definite, corrective, formal gymnastics forthe training of posture. Only such a type of work can over-come faults of posture and train erect carriage. The effect onposture of most other types of exercise is indirect, and one mightbe a devotee of any or all of these activities and still have verypoor carriage of the body. This fact is illustrated at almostevery athletic meet or tournament. The direct service of thesevaried types of recreative exercise lies in a different directionfrom, though one equally necessary with, the correction ofposture; and just as these activities supplement and comple-ment corrective exercise in the upbuilding of the body, so inturn must they be reenforced with selected gymnastic work ofthe corrective type for harmonious development of physique.
Text Appearing After Image:
CHAPTER XV HOME HYGIENE FOR POSTURE: LEARNING TO STAND ANDWALK; NUTRITION; SLEEP AND SLEEPING POSITIONS;CHAIRS AND TABLES; WEIGHT CARRYING; MUSIC PRAC-TICE Any one charged with the physical development of largenumbers of children, or even of one child, must realize themolding influence of those constant conditions that we callhygiene. Again and again weak phases in physique, Hke weakphases in mental work, are traceable directly to loss of power dueto poor nutrition, late hours, overdoing wifh duties in the homeor outside of it, or any one of numerous other influences thatonly those who control home conditions may remedy. In tryingto correct posture, there is added to this Kst of adverse influencesmany that bear even more directly on the correct developmentand carriage of the body. For example, what chance is thereof making permanent gain in the correction of posture, whenthe clothing worn by a child is so shaped that it continuallypulls the figure out of true? The shape and size of ch