living. Desirable as is a posture program in the nursery school where children of from two years to nearly five come together, it has not often been a feasible endeavour to carry out. In the first place it is not often feasible to have elaborate posture apparatus in a nursery school. In the second place, it is not often feasible to have in daily attendance a trained expert in posture who can give to the children both passive and active corrective and developmental exercises. Hence to evolve a posture program which could be simply carried on by nursery school teachers appeared highly desirable. In consequence a first question arose: What can the teacher who has had little or no posture training do under the occasional direction of a consulting orthopedist and without elaborate posture equipment? Can she in the natural environment of the nursery school help the children to correct development of those muscle groups upon which good posture depends? The first solution that occurs is to arrange exercise periods and have the nursery school teacher learn how to give certain simple exercises to the children. But on further consideration such a solution seems both premature and lacking in thoughtfulness. The nursery school child is in a developmental period of growth where attention to tasks imposed by others is difficult. He is exceedingly active, but his activities have short duration span and shift quickly. Activities imposed on him in a set form by others not only fail to appeal after their first novelty has worn off, but often call forth outright negativism. The child during these early years is called on to learn so many fundamental habits at the will of others, that if many additional items are asked of him, he begins to balk at everything. Psychologists have pointed out that demands are best limited to routines of eating, sleeping, elimination, and to safeguarding from danger for children between two and five. They tell us that the negativism which children evidence at this period is a necessary phase in the develop269