Show or mind healing is attracting much attention these days comes to us in the form of the Emanuel Christian New Thought or o something That there is much good in mental suggestion physician knows because he practices it on every favorable Parents should know to what extent they may resort to it in dealing with their children and as bearing on this thought A. C. Eastman points out in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal that childhood is the most suggestive period of life and that from infancy the child is influenced by First come suggestions of external stimuli through the then the suggestion of obedience to certain necessary functions imposed on the infant far his physical development finally as speech develops come the innumerable suggestions picked up from the conversation of the child's The older a child grows the more firmly fixed become the habits of both thought and if suggestion can change habits fully developed in an how much says to change and model the mind into correct thoughts and actions during this plastic stage of Eastman divides childhood into three and early from birth until the age of early school from 5 to 10 years of early from 10 to 15 years of At the child is a little instinctively eating and oblivious to outside At the age of 5 he has learned the first lessons in and has formed both good and bad His mind is fully alive to his small world and he absorbs more knowledge in twenty-four hours than we can During this first period Eastman states that the best time to use suggestion is just after the child has gone to The child should be addressed in a firm natural voice and the suggestion repeated several only one suggestion should be used at a time order to avoid confusing the Eastman cites several cases illustrative of the good accomplished by suggestion in during this In the second period suggestion is adapted to the cure of nervous conditions resulting from close and too competition in In both these periods he also advocates in other ignoring a mis often the method of teaching the child to overcome The third period brings the individual to the borderland between childhood and adult life and of course opens a large therapeutic and educational suggestion Parents' |