Excerpt from Note-Book of an Adopted Mother: Experience in the Home Training of a Boy All mothers cannot do this, I know, yet all are meeting from day to day many of the prob lems which come to me. So it may chance that, following my experiences on the printed page, they will find their own perceptions somewhat quickened, and profit, not only by my little suc cesses, but by my failures as well. It is a great deal to form the habit of looking beneath the sur face of the day's happenings; it is a great deal for some of us even to want to do so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.