Show first five years of life really detent mental condition of the adult by PROF ARNOLD GESELL director yale psycho clink the first five years of a childs life have more weight ng the mental condition of the adult than any equal length of tima the age of five to twenty four thi by making extensive studies of a number of children of one month to five years and discovering what most children to do at a given age it will be possible to lay down rules aa to mal childs reaction is r 11 when we have established these rules we will be able by dren in the light of them to discover whether or not a child subnormal or above normal po it is our hope to gather a great deal of knowledge of child ann to apply it in remedying the children who need special the very early years of their lives it is then that they are more ab we do not believe that all the mental weaknesses of predestined we believe that they are to some extent at leastle that it is largely a matter of proper regulation and habit formate the pre school period |