The Well-Being of Children

Raising Children

Children are extremely delicate and elegant in body, temperature, and tempera-ment. Their temper, as it adjusts to growth, should be kept very balanced and moderate, since it responds quite rapidly and easily to events going on about it. The reason for this tendency to moods and activities is the prevalence of phlegm in large quantities in the child's body, and the shifting weaknesses and softness of the body parts as they undergo growth...Read on