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Updated: April 30, 2025
Another phase of mental disorder in childhood sometimes presents itself as the result of overtasking the intellectual powers. This over-work too is by no means due in all cases to the parents' unwisely urging the child forward, but it is often quite voluntary on his part.
It was only those whose courage induced them to venture a little farther who received condemnation. In some way or other, every soul is wearing out and overtasking somebody else's soul, and shortening somebody's days. A man who should throw his child into the water, in order to save him from being burned to death, would not be arraigned for the fierce choice.
Now it was the alderman for misusing him, overtasking the poor child, and deferring the marriage, now it was that little pert poppet, Dennet, who had flouted him, now it was the bad company he had been led into the poor babe who had been bred to godly ways.
"Well, sir, they had been at him for near a month, overtasking him and then giving him the jacket, and starving him and overtasking him again on his empty stomach till the poor lad was a living skeleton. On the fourth the governor put him in the jacket, and there he was kept till he swooned." "Ah!" "Then they flung two buckets of water over him and that brought him to.
A tinge of scarlet streaked Madame Vine's pale face, and she laid her hand upon her beating heart. "How could you think of leaving? We should be glad to help re-establish your health, in any case, but it is only fair to do it now. I felt sure, by the news brought to me when I was ill, that your attention upon William was overtasking your strength."
Are you aware, again, of the vast amount of disease which, so both wise mothers and wise doctors assure me, is engendered in the sleeping-room from simple ignorance of the laws of ventilation, and in the schoolroom likewise, from simple ignorance of the laws of physiology? from an ignorance of which I shall mention no other case here save one that too often from ignorance of signs of approaching disease, a child is punished for what is called idleness, listlessness, wilfulness, sulkiness; and punished, too, in the unwisest way by an increase of tasks and confinement to the house, thus overtasking still more a brain already overtasked, and depressing still more, by robbing it of oxygen and of exercise, a system already depressed?
Lockwin is up and away at seven o'clock in the morning. "Be careful of the boy, Esther," he says. "What does the doctor seem to think?" "He gives the same medicine," says Esther, "but Davy played his orguinette for over an hour yesterday." "He did! Good! Esther, that lifts me up. I wish I could have heard him!" "David, I fear that you are overtasking yourself. Do be careful! please be careful!"
Wallace, though pleased with the interest she took in even the minutest details of their design, became fearful of overtasking her weakened frame; he whispered Bruce to gradually drop the conversation; and, as it died away, slumber again stole over her eyelids. The dawn had spread far over the sky while she yet slept.
Let me read you the words of a high authority Dr Richardson: `These precocious, coached-up children are never well, he says. `Their mental excitement keeps up a flush which, like the excitement caused by strong drink in older children, looks like health, but has no relation to it. And if this overtasking the mind is so injurious to the body, what will our women of the next generation be if things go on with us as they are doing at present?
I think he is overtasking himself at the school; and three children within a year may well make a man anxious and oppressed. 'And I have vexed and disappointed him more! exclaimed she. 'No wonder he was angry, and ready to impute anything! But he will believe me, he will forgive me, he will take me home.
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