Children Growing Up: The Development of Children's Personalities

Parental attitudes to the problem of blindness are explored, and though much useful advice is given-for example, on the child's own acceptance of his blindness as the norm, on the handling of " blindisms ", etc.-a chapter reporting a particular research on parents' and children's attitudes to blindness seems perhaps out of place in this general discussion. Some of the more subtle aspects of the training of blind children-for example, in the social expression of emotion through facial expression, and in the subtleties of vision (light, colour, shadow, horizon)are not evaded, and, in general, it could be said that a fair standard of education may be required for parents to benefit from all this book has to offer.