<p>"I am moved to recall what I can of my early days, what I thought and felt, that grown people may have a better understanding of children and do more for their happiness and development. I see so much tyranny exercised over children, even by well-disposed parents, and in so many varied forms, ?a tyranny to which these parents are themselves insensible, ?that I desire to paint my joys and sorrows in as vivid colors as possible, in the hope that...