This book is a valuable guide written with an aim to disseminate useful knowledge regarding the bringing up of children. It includes chapters and sections on the preparation of maternity room for delivering a child, basic information about the newly-born child, premature birth, bathing of children, their clothing, toiletries, and general care of their body. Minute details regarding how to stop breast-feeding, how to take a child to sleep, how to identify diseases, and how to manage them skilfully are also dealt with in practical terms. The books is a valuable guide to mothers and attendants as it takes care of all the stages related to the birth and growth of a child.