Excerpt from The Problems of Boyhood: A Course in Ethics for Boys of High-School Age To one who is interested in moral or religious instruction in the Sunday school, the public or private school, the Young Men's Christian Association, the social settlement, or other similar organizations, the boy in his teens presents a peculiarly baffling problem. It has not been difficult to make the work of the Sunday school seem interesting and worth while to both boys and girls up to the age of twelve or fourteen. It has been comparatively easy to hold the girls right on through the period of girlhood up to young womanhood. But with the boy from fourteen years up it is a different case. The physiological changes which take place at this time, of which the sudden rapid physical growth is the most obvious, are accompanied by more profound changes which affect his thought and conduct. The boy who has been docile and gentle suddenly becomes self-assertive and rough, ready to question the authority of teacher or parent. 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.