Boy-problems are as universal as boys--Boys too often regarded as necessary evils--Necessity for training--How to study the boy--Tendencies in present-day education of children--Character- culture should come first--The home is the place and the parent the agency--Boys more difficult to train than girls--The boy’s viewpoint--Parental indifference to boy-training--Each boy is an individual problem. II. PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY 15 Causes of waywardness--Wrong training and bad environment-- Parental ignorance concerning boy-training--An instance-- Heredity--Accountability of the parent--Spending money--Laxity of discipline--Average parent not fully equipped for his job. III. CHILD PSYCHOLOGY 30 Table of psychic characteristics at several ages--Infancy and imagination--Early boyhood and individualism--Early adolescence and hero-worship--Later adolescence and thoughtful mental attitude--Age when puberty occurs--Period of motor activity. IV. ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY 52 Adolescence the period of storm and stress--Change from childhood to manhood--Puberty--Physical indicia--Mental indicia--Psychic disturbances--Truancy and wanderlust--Lack of continuity of purpose and action--Proximity to the savage state--Humor--Sex-consciousness and its manifestations--Love affairs--Plasticity of mind--Will-power appears--Age of discretion--Cycles of susceptibility to religious influences-- Age of experimentation--Hero-worship and its manifestations-- Object of hero-worship--Gratitude lacking--Reflective period-- Introspection--Sense of perspective is distorted--Visionary ambitions--Dislike of older boy for younger--Will-power, mental and moral stature attained. V. THE BOY’S VIEWPOINT 80 Difference of viewpoint at differing psychic ages--Youth and age contrasted--The boy’s desire for physical expression-- Inability for sustained mental or physical effort--Adult must put himself in boy’s place to understand him--The natural adult leader of boys--Boy lives in the present--Parent must do child’s thinking for him--Injustice to boy from failure to consider his standards. VI. OBEDIENCE 92 The cornerstone of child-training--Children’s attitude toward parents--Its causes and effects--Character is predicated on obedience--Parental prohibitions which cause disobedience--Habit of obedience formed most easily in early childhood--How obedience may be cultivated--Commands must be founded on justice and reason--Disobedience results from parental caprice or injustice--Illustrations--The rational quality in the boy-- Importance of paternal example.