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Hygiene and Health - INTRODUCTION - The distinguishing feature of HYGIENE AND HEALTH is its outstanding aim and plan of causing the pupils to form righ-t habits of fihysical living. In order to achieve this end, they must be led from day to day to do the things that lead to health and vigor, and to avoid the things that injure and weaken., Each lesson therefore provides for certain suitable activi... More

Hygiene and Health - INTRODUCTION - The distinguishing feature of HYGIENE AND HEALTH is its outstanding aim and plan of causing the pupils to form righ-t habits of fihysical living. In order to achieve this end, they must be led from day to day to do the things that lead to health and vigor, and to avoid the things that injure and weaken., Each lesson therefore provides for certain suitable activities . to be carried out. The children are asked to learn by doing, which is not only good pedagogy, but even better hygiene. The exercises provided are an integral part of the text, and are of the practical sort that find a setting in the daily life of every child. A skilful carrying out of the many simple experimeats and projects given will not only bring zest and motive to the work, but will serve to carry the facts learned over into everyday practise. The wise teacher will, therefore, bend every effort to make the lessons take hold from day to day as they are taught. She will measure her success by the extent to which the children live better physically, here and nuw, because of the lessons learned, and by the extent to which they are forming right hygienic habits as they are passing through the text. Those familiar with the texts in this field will note the avoidance in the present volume of two extremes at, the over-emphasis on physiology and anatomy which characterizes the older type of text and s ondt, h e equally dangerous method of certain more recent texts, which offer a collection of mere stories and illustrations combined with sets of hygienic rules. This book stresses hygienic practise above all else, but . does not fail to give the underlying facts and explanations for which the childs mind is at this stage ready, and which his curiosity demands. While immediate habits of right living are the great aim sought, the pupil is, step by step, led to an intelligent anderstanding of his own body and the laws which govern its welfare. The authors offer this volume as one small contribution to the present national movement to build up a better physical basis of life for our nation. THE AUTHORS. HYGIENE AND HEALTH HYGIENE AND HEALTH. CHAPTER I MAKING OUR HABITS OUR FRIENDS Did you ever notice which shoe you put on first in the morning Or which arm you first put into your coat Not that it matters which comes first in either case, but it is likely that you do put on your shoes and your coat in the same way every time. This is because you have formed the habit of doing these things in a certain manner. Acts that we come to do without stopping to think about them, or without intending to do them we call our habits. How habits are formed.-My friend Tom has a chum who stammers. Tom was thoughtless and unkind enough to mimic his chum several times. He did it in fun, of course, and had no notion of learning to stammer himself. But it was not long until Toms mother noticed that he was stammering. When she spoke to him about it, Tom said he didnt mean to do it, and that it just did itself. That was true. After lie had performed the act of stammering a few times it went on and did itself without Tom intending it he habit was formed, and Tom is having much trouble in breaking it. We can form either good habits or bad habits. If we perform only the right kind of acts our habits will be good. If we do things that ought not to be done and continue doing them for a little time we will have habits that are bad...

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