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biographical one — that of watching one baby's development, day by day, and recording it. 

I am often asked if the results one gets in this way are  not misleading since each child might differ greatly fromothers. One 

must, of course, use great caution in drawing general conclusions from a single child, but in many things all babies are alike, 

and one learns to perceive pretty well which are the things. Babyhood is mainly taken up with the development of the large, 

general racial powers; individual differences are less important than in later childhood. And the biographical method of child 

study has the inestimable advantage of showing the process ofevolution going on, the actual unfolding of one stage out of 

another, id the steps by which the changes come about. No amount of comparative statistics could give this. If I should find 

out that a thousand babies learned to stand at an average age of forty-six weeks and two days, I should not know as much that 

is  important  about  standing,  an  a  stage  in  human  progress,  as  I  should  after  watching  a  single  baby  carefully  through  the 

whole process of achieving balance on his little soles. 

Yet there are not many baby biographies in existence. There are scarcely half a dozen records that are full and consecutive

enough to be at all entitled to the name, and even of more fragmentary ones the number in print as separate essays is scarcely 

larger. A good many more, however, have been available in manuscript to students, and many mothers no doubt keep such 

little notebooks. These notes are often highly exact and intelligent, as far as they go (I have found this especially true ofthe 

notebooks  of  members  of  the  Association  of  Collegiate  Alumnae),  and  afford  important  corroboration's  here  and  there  to 

more continuous records. 

It was the Germans -who first thought baby life "worth recording, and the most complete and scientific of all the records is a 

German one. The first record known was published in the last century by a Professor Tiedemann —  a mere slip of an essay, 

long completely forgotten, but resuscitated about the middle of  this century, translated into French (and lately into English), 

and used by all students of the subject. Some of its observation -we must, with our present knowledge, set down as erroneous; 

but it is on the whole exact and valuable, and a remarkable thing for a man to have done more than a hundred years ago. 

Perhaps Darwin, in 1840, was the next person to take notes of an infant's development; but they were taken only incidentally 

to another study, and were not published for more than thirty years (partly in " The Expression of the Emotions in Man  and 

Animals,"  1873,  partly  in  a  magazine  article  in  1877).  They  are  scanty  but  important.  In  the  interval  before  they  were 

published two or three small records had been published in Germany, andat least one paper, that of M. Taine, in France. 

In 1881, the first edition of Professor Preyer's " model record " waspublished, and before his death, in 1897, it had reached its 

third edition in Germany, and had been widely circulated in America in Mr. Brown's excellent translation, "The Sensesand 

the Will," and " The Development of the Intellect." It did more to stimulate and direct the study of infancy than any other

publication.  It  has,  however,  the  limitations  that  were  to  be  expected  from  Professor  Preyer's  special  training  as  a 

physiologist,  and  is  meager  on  the  side  of  mental,  moral, and  emotional  development.  Professor  Sully's  "  Extracts  from a 

Father's Diary," published in part in 1881 and 1884 and fully in 1896, is richer on these sides, and also more readable. 

Within  the  present  decade,  it  is  worth  observing,  the  principal  records  have  been  American,  not  German,  and  have  been 

written  by  women.  Outside  of  America,  only  men,  usually  university  professors,  have  made  extended  records.  Professor 

Preyer and Professor Sully have both appealed in vain to their countrywomen to keep such records, holding up American 

women for emulation. My " Notes on the Development of a Child "were published in 1893 and 1899. In 1896 appeared Mrs. 

Hall's " The First 500 Days of a Child's Life," a brief record, and confined to a short period, but a very good one, and perhaps 

the best for use as a guide by any one who wishes to keep a record and finds Preyer too technical. Mrs. Moore's " Mental 

Development of a Child " is quite as much a psychological study as a record, but is based on full biographical notes; it will be 

more used by students than general readers. Mrs. Hogan's " A Study of a Child," 1898, is less scholarly than the others, out

has a great deal of useful material; it does not begin at birth, however, but with the fourteenth month. 

Perhaps I should say a word here as to the way in which I came to make a baby biography, for I am often asked how one 

should  go  to  work  at  it.  It  was  not  done  in  my  case  for  any scientific  purpose,  for  I  did  not  feel  competent  to  make 

observations of scientific value, Cut I had for years desired  an opportunity to see the wonderful unfolding of human powers 

out of the limp helplessness of the new-born baby; to watch this fascinating drama of evolution daily, minutely, and with an 

effort to understand it as far as I could, for my own pleasure and information. I scarcely know whence the suggestion had 

come; probably almost by inheritance, for my mother and grandmother had both been in somewhat notable degree observers 

of the development of babies' minds. But, unlike them, I had the  notebook habit from college and editorial days, and jotted 

things down as I watched, till quite unexpectedly I found myself in possession of a large mass of data. 

A few days after my own notes began I obtained Professor  Preyer's record, and without it I should have found the earliest 

weeks quite unintelligible. For some months my notes were largely memoranda of the likenesses and differences between my

niece's development and that of Preyer's boy, and I still think  this is the best way for a new observer to get started. Astime 

went on, I departed more and more from the lines of Preyer'sobservations, and after the first year was little influenced by 

them. Later, I devoted a good deal of study to the notes, and tried to analyzetheir scientific results. 

There is one question that I have been asked a hundred times about baby biography: " Doesn't it do the children some harm? 

Doesn't it make them nervous? Doesn't it make them self-conscious? " At first this seemed to me an odd misapprehension —

as  if  people  supposed  observing  children  meant  doing  something  to them.  But  I  have  no  doubt  it  could  be  so  foolishly 

managed as to harm the child. There are thousands of parentswho tell anecdotes about children before their faces every day 

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