title: Welcome to Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College
author:  Sandra Aamodt 
description: <span>&quot;...cutting-edge research on the growing brain, from birth to the age of 21....with its clear graphics, this is a useful companion guide for educators and families.&quot; - <i>Nature</i></span><br /><br />&quot;<span>...A fresh approach to brain research...offering parents practical tips along the way....</span><span>The authors are consummate myth busters: birth order, research reveals, has little impact on personality, and the left-brain is as emotionally charged as the right....Thought-provoking revelations.&quot; - <i>Publishers Weekly</i></span>
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  # The Education of American Girls
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Anna Callender Brackett
  
  
  This page formatted 2007 Blackmask Online.
  
  
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  * [PREFACE.](edam_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS.](edam_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [PHYSICAL EDUCATION,](edam_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [MENTAL EDUCATION,](edam_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [MORAL EDUCATION;](edam_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [A MOTHER'S THOUGHT](edam_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  * [A MOTHER'S THOUGHT](edam_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  * [THE OTHER SIDE.](edam_split_9.html#1_0_9)
  
  
  * [EFFECTS OF MENTAL GROWTH.](edam_split_10.html#1_0_10)
  
  
  * [GIRLS AND WOMEN](edam_split_11.html#1_0_11)
  
  
  * [MENTAL ACTION](edam_split_12.html#1_0_12)
  
  
  * [UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.](edam_split_13.html#1_0_13)
  
  
  * [MOUNT HOLYOKE.](edam_split_14.html#1_0_14)
  
  
  * [OBERLIN COLLEGE.](edam_split_15.html#1_0_15)
  
  
  * [VASSAR COLLEGE.](edam_split_16.html#1_0_16)
  
  
  * [ANTIOCH COLLEGE.](edam_split_17.html#1_0