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Mental Hygiene Films

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mental-Hygiene-Films.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/9/2000 Mental Hygiene Films Transcript I remember vividly to this day a spring morning in high school, back in the early 1960s, and being marched into the auditorium to be treated to a film called “Drug Addiction,” about the decline and fall Marty DeMalone, […]

Manners for Boys

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Manners-II.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/18/2000 Manners for Boys Transcript Boys and manners? It’s not as oxymoronic as it sounds, as Rita Smith informs us in her Rediscovery for today. It has always been important to pass on correct manners from one generation to the next. One of the […]

Manners

Here's Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children's Literature, to discuss historical manners instruction for children.