As marriage unites two hearts and lives in love, and a new home is created, an early concern of its founders is that the children which grace this new home shall be properly reared. The question of Manoah of old, "how shall we order the child?" is thoughtf
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an early concern of its founders is that the children which grace this new
home shall be properly reared. The question of Manoah of old, "how shall we
order the child?" is thoughtfully pondered by parents today as they look
into the face of the precious and helpless gift entrusted to their care.
The significance of instruction on child guidance is best understood as we
note the important place it takes in the word of god and the frequent and
detailed references to the subject in the spirit of prophecy writings. In
her several books, but more particularly in the articles on practical
Christian living which appeared from week to week in the various journals of
the denomination, Mrs. White set forth a wealth of counsel to parents. In
addition to this, she addressed to various families hundreds of personal
testimonies in which she dealt specifically with the problems they faced. In
these articles and personal testimonies she described the principles which
should guide parents, and the procedures they should follow as they were
kept before her in vision.
In her later years Mrs. White expressed a desire to bring out a book for
Christian parents that would make clear "the mother's duty and influence
over her children." in the recently issued the Adventist home and this
companion work, that desire is now fulfilled. Only the thoughtful and
prayerful perusal of the significant counsels of this volume can reveal the
tremendous and far-reaching influence of training the child properly as god
has placed the responsibility with parents.
The fact that Ellen White was the mother of four enabled her to set forth in
an understanding and sympathetic manner the instruction imparted to her. Her
experience in the practical application of the principles she has set before
others begets confidence in the heart of the reader.
All the E. G. White sources, published and unpublished, have been drawn upon
in preparing child guidance. Full source credits appear at the close of each
chapter. Because the content of this volume has been brought together from a
number of sources written over a period of seventy years, there occasionally
occurs an unavoidable break in thought and manner of address as the several
statements are linked together in their natural subject sequence. The
compilers were limited in their work to the selecting and arranging of the
various statements and to the supplying of headings.
Child guidance was prepared under the direction of the board of trustees of
the Ellen G. White publications in their offices in Washington, D.C. The
work was done in harmony with Mrs. White's instruction to her trustees that
they should provide for the printing of compilations from her manuscript and
published sources.
The need for this volume is great. Eternal interests are at stake. The
detailed counsels on discipline, character building, and physical and
spiritual education will be treasured by every thoughtful parent. That this
volume, standing by the side of the Adventist Home, Messages to Young
People, and other of the E. G. White books of counsel to parents and youth,
may serve to guide fathers and mothers in their most important work is the
sincere wish of the publishers and the
The Trustees of the
Ellen G. White Estate.
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What is it?
The study guide is a set of simple guide sheets prepared under the direction
of the Ellen G. White Estate and the General Conference Department of
Education to assist the reader in the study of the book Child Guidance. This
volume by Mrs. White consists of nineteen sections, as does the matching
study guide.
Each of the nineteen guide sheets consists of (1) page assignments for
reading Child Guidance; (2) a "check your knowledge" review; (3) a
self-rating department; (4) questions for group or family discussions, if
desired; (5) questions for personal meditation and reflection; and (6) an
answer sheet to each guide.
The answer sheet is provided for checking purposes, thus enabling the reader
to be both student and teacher. The reader corrects his own quiz sheet. Each
student is encouraged, however, to read the assignment carefully and to
complete the guide sheet before referring to the answers.
This simple method of approach should prove to be an interesting and
profitable way to study Child Guidance.
Who may use it?
The guide sheets may be used by individual adults, by husband and wife, by
prospective homemakers in the college classroom, by teenagers in our
academies, by church study groups, and by other groups organized for study
purposes.
May God help every student who uses these guide sheets to a better
understanding of the principles of successful parenthood, homemaking, and
child guidance.
The companion book, The Adventist Home, also by Ellen White, is recommended
to all parents and prospective parents and college students interested in
child psychology.
The Board of Trustees
Ellen G. White Estate, Inc.
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INDIVIDUAL RATING SHEET
______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter
HOME, THE FIRST SCHOOL
Section I Date ________
A. Read pages 13-28.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. Where is the child's first school located? (17:1)*
*The number before the colon is the page of Child Guidance
on which the answer is found; the number following the colon
gives the paragraph.
2. Who are to be his first teachers? (17:1)
3. What important lifelong lessons is the child to learn above all others?
(17:1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
4. For what is the home a training school? (17:3)
5. Complete: "Teach your children to be _______________________ and
_______________________." (17:3)
6. If parents neglect this home training, they neglect a
______________________ duty. (18:3)
7. On whose work do schoolteachers build? (19:2)
8. When should parents begin preparation for the training of their
children? (21:2)
9. What dual purpose should be the objective of this parental training?
(21:3)
10. What two things are parents to seek to secure for their children?
(22:0)
11. What prayer are we to offer for our children? (22:2)
12. Complete: "God cannot keep children from evil if the
_______________________ do not cooperate with Him." (22:2)
13. Why did John the Baptist's parents move to the country? (23:1)
14. What is the most sacred work of parents? (23:3)
15. Complete: "You are to _______________________ your little ones to know
_______________________." (23:4)
16. What disciplinary training does Christ want children to receive at
home? (24:0)
(a)
(b)
(c)
17. What terrible accusation is laid against careless parents? (24:1)
18. Complete:
a. "They [parents] are to be very _______________________ and very
_______________________ in their speech." (24:2)
b. "They are to be _______________________ and _______________________
to each other." (24:2)
c. They are "to bring into the home a _______________________, wholesome
_______________________." (24:2)
d. "They [parents] should not _______________________ in the presence of
their children." (24:2)
19. Why is the mother, of necessity, the special instructor of her
children? (24:3)
20. How can parents best teach respect and obedience? (24:4)
(a)
(b)
21. What will never pass inspection in the judgment? (25:1)
22. As soon as a child can form an idea, what is to begin? (26:2)
23. What can a child learn from its parents even before its reason fully
develops? (27:0)
24. When only are parents prepared to be the teachers of their children?
(27:1)
25. Why is proper habit formation vital in infancy and early childhood?
(27:3)
26. Why should the firstborn child be trained with the greatest of care?
(27:4)
C. Rate your home as a school: Excellent____ Good____ Poor____ Bad____
1. Where does it rate the highest?
2. Where does it rate the lowest?
D. Discuss with others:*
1. Name two ways light has been shining "so that none need err in regard
to their duty." (13:2)
2. What is true education? (Book learning? Technical? Professional?
Character?)
3. Why is the "school in the home" so important to the child? (17:1)
4. What four subjects are to be taught in this developing process? (17:1)
5. Why should parents know about physiology, anatomy, and the laws of
health?
6. When can parents say, "My educating days are over"?
7. Why cannot parents wait and leave child training to schoolteachers?
8. Why such emphasis on careful training of our firstborn? (27:4)
9. How do the principles laid down in this lesson fit with Proverbs 22:6?
*Others means your companion, other relatives, neighbors, church members, or
the Home and School study group.
E. Think on these things:
1. Will it be my privilege to have the gate of heaven thrown open to me
and my children? (13:1)
2. If so, what have I done for my children? (13:1)
3. If the gate is closed and a hand raised to keep me from entering, what
will the voice say I have neglected? (13:1)
4. Will God accept church activities or offerings as a substitute for
neglecting my own children?
5. How can I answer the questions on page 25, paragraph 2?
6. How nearly am I as a father measuring up to the pattern laid down for
me?
7. Am I as a mother fulfilling my greatest mission in life--to my
children?
F. Name one way I as the (husband, wife, son, daughter) can make my home
today a better school.
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INDIVIDUAL RATING SHEET
______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter
METHODS AND TEXTBOOKS
Section II Date ________
A. Read pages 31-60.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. Complete: "Prepare the way for your child to _______________________
your _______________________." (31:1)
2. Who will educate your children if you do not? (31:1)
3. Complete: "A _______________________ tends to quiet the
_______________________ of the little one." (32:1)
4. Why should parents study, test, compare others' methods with their own?
(32:2)
5. What three things is every mother to do with her children? (33:4)
(a)
(b)
(c)
6. Children should be first taught from what book? (34:1)
7. Complete: "There is _______________________ and _______________________
for him in the study of nature." (34:4)
8. Complete: "Too much talk will lead them [children] to
_______________________ even _______________________ instruction." (35:0)
9. Where are children to be taught to find evidences of God's care for us
and of His interest in our welfare and happiness? (35:1)
10. By giving children something to do with hands and minds we advance
them in _______________________. (36:0)
11. Complete: "As soon as strength and _______________________ power are
sufficiently developed, he [the child] should be given
_______________________ to _______________________ in the home." (36:1)
12. What four things are children to be taught not to do? (37:3)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
13. Why are children often bold, forward, and impertinent? (38:0)
14. Complete: "The child must be taught to _______________________
himself. The _______________________ must be trained to
_______________________ the dictates of _______________________ and
_______________________." (39:2)
15. What is to be made the rule of life in child training? (41:1)
16. What is to be made a pleasant theme in the family circle? (42:1)
17. What will banish fear in a timid child? (42:2)
18. Complete: "The book of nature . . . afforded an exhaustless
_______________________ of instruction and _______________________." (45:4)
19. Besides revealing God, of what does the book of nature constantly warn
us? (46:1)
20. In what may children be taught to see Christ? (46:4, 47:0)
21. What should be the schoolroom for little children? (48:1)
22. How and where are little children to be free to play? (48:3)
23. What will the study of nature do for the mind? (49:2)
24. What are we to discern in God's created works? (54:1)
25. From the ant and the bee we may learn a lesson of
_______________________. (59:1, 2)
C. Rate your methods of teaching: Excellent____ Good____ Fair____ Poor____
1. My most effective method is
2. My least effective method is
D. Discuss with others:
1. What is meant by "Prepare the way for your child to obey your commands
cheerfully"? (31:1)
2. Discuss how to educate for the "restful spirit" and "loving heart"
development. (31:2)
3. How does the fretful, impatient mother, nurse, or babysitter affect the
child? (32:1)
4. How are we to teach little children to do independent thinking? (35:1)
5. How early in life shall children be taught to work? (36:1)
6. What does the performance of everyday duties have to do with character
development? (37:1)
7. Why is special care needed in training talented children? (37:3)
8. Discuss the matter of praising children, showing them off, flattering
them. (37:4, 38:0)
9. How are God's two books (nature and the Bible) related in child
training?
10. Discuss: Seeing God in nature (beware of pantheism). Seeing God's
footprints.
11. Discuss the mental, physical, moral, and spiritual benefits of nature
study.
12. Rightly understood, "the world is a lesson book, life a school."
(55:3)
E. Think on these things:
1. Do I prepare the way for my child to obey cheerfully?
2. How much time do I allow Satan to teach my child?
3. Do I talk too much?
4. Do I have the two attributes of kindliness and affection that are to
attend the teaching of my child? (33:1)
5. Why should I never scold my child? (33:3)
6. What spirit must pervade my home if it is to develop in my child?
(36:1)
7. On what day of the week should I especially behold God in nature?
(55:1)
8. Do the beauties of nature remind me of my heavenly home?
F. Name one lesson I have learned from the book of nature today.
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______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter
TEACHERS ADEQUATELY TRAINED
Section III Date ________
A. Read pages 63-76.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. Complete: Above every other teacher, the mother should be
_______________________ to use her training opportunities the best
_______________________. (63:1)
2. Whose influence in education is most potent and far-reaching? (63:1)
3. Of what three things are some parents ignorant? (63:2)
(a)
(b)
(c)
4. For what two persons is thorough preparation for child training most
urgent? (63:3)
(a)
(b)
5. Before marriage, with what subjects should men and women acquaint
themselves? (63:3, 64:0)
6. When only will education accomplish its goal? (64:1)
7. Complete: "To assume the responsibilities _______________________
without such a preparation is a _______________________." (64:2)
8. For what must parents give account? (64:4)
9. From what can there be no "sinless swerving"? (66:1)
10. What law must always be on parents' lips? (66)
11. What will our children grow up to do when we make God's will ours?
(66:3)
12. Complete: "Parents should now do everything in their power to
_______________________ their _______________________ and place their
children where they will be under the very best influence." (66:4, 67:0)
13. What will we incur if we trifle with the training of our children?
(67:2)
14. Complete: "Every woman should develop a well-balanced
_______________________ and _______________________ character." (67:5)
15. What are we diligently to guard? _______________________ Overcome
what? _______________________ (68:1)
16. What are we now to do if we thus far have been wrong in our child
training? (69:2)
17. Of what three things is this our day? (69:4)
(a)
(b)
(c)
18. What does service to self and to the world do to mothers? (71:1)
19. Complete: "Parents have not yet aroused to understand the
_______________________ of Christian culture." (72:4)
20. To escape household drudgery, what must a mother do? (73:4)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
21. Complete: "You need the _______________________, the
_______________________, the _______________________, the cultivation of the
_______________________, that this life brings." (74:3)
22. When does Satan sow the seeds of death in the hearts of our children?
(75:2)
23. Is it the business of others how we train our children? (75:3)
24. For what purpose are parents to meet together? (75:4)
25. What will scolding and threats never obtain? (76:1)
C. Rate yourself as a teacher: Excellent____ Good____ Fair____ Poor____
1. The training that helped me most was
2. The training I need the most is
D. Discuss with others:
1. How do preparation requirements for teachers compare with those of
parents?
2. How long will education fail to succeed? (64:1)
3. Why is it a sin to become parents without proper training for it?
4. Discuss "faith and works" in the home life.
5. Why is the Bible so vital a guide in our parental guidance?
6. What is meant by "home missionaries"? (69:3)
7. How can children be under the Holy Spirit's guidance every day? (70:0)
8. Discuss "mothers," as described on page 71.
9. Discuss "parental training" with relation to "child training." (74, 75)
10. Why is it the business of others how we rear our own children? (75:2,
3)
11. Why have parent-education discussion meetings? (75, 76)
12. Discuss scolding, nagging, "bawling out" of children.
E. Think on these things:
1. Am I qualified to be a parent?
2. How can I qualify?
3. What will become of my child if I do not?
4. What will become of me?
5. What should be a mother's highest aim? (68:3)
6. Of what am I especially to feel my need? (69:1)
7. Who has a greater work to do than do kings? (71:2)
8. How can the gospel be brought into my home life? (73:0)
9. Are the evenings in my home "pleasant social seasons"?
F. Name one lesson I as (the husband, wife, son, daughter) have taught some
member of my family today that God could approve.
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INDIVIDUAL RATING SHEET
______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter
OBEDIENCE, THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON
Section IV Date ________
A. Read pages 79-88.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. Complete: "It is a higher branch of _______________________ to teach
children _______________________." (79:1)
2. What will prompt and continual obedience do for children? (79:3)
3. If the family is to be happy, what must be revered in homes? (79:4)
4. How does God feel about disobedience and transgression? (80:1)
5. What would God do to the earth were it not for commandment-keeping
people? (80:2)
6. Between what are children to be taught to distinguish? (81:0)
7. Complete: "The way to be treated as righteous for Christ's sake is to
_______________________ the law." (81:1)
8. From infancy what three things are children to be taught? (82:3)
(a)
(b)
(c)
9. Complete: "Before he is old enough to _______________________, he may
be taught to obey." (82:4)
10. What kind of language can children be taught to obey? (82:7)
11. Of what must the child be assured in your firm discipline? (83:0)
12. What three things must never have their course in the first three
years of life? (83:0)
(a)
(b)
(c)
13. Complete: "The future well-being of the child requires
_______________________, _______________________, but
_______________________ discipline." (83:1)
14. In respecting parents whom else do children respect? (83:2)
15. What parents and children will be welcomed into mansions above? (84:2)
16. How only can children learn successfully the lesson of obedience?
(85:1)
17. Complete: "Children should be taught from infancy to
_______________________ obey their _______________________." (85:2)
18. To what point must children be brought? (85:4)
19. What lies at the door of parents who permit disobedience? (85:4)
20. Complete: "Parents are to teach their children _______________________
without _______________________ or _______________________." (86:2)
21. Why are children to be reasoned with on obedience? (86:4, 87:0)
22. Complete: "They must learn to _______________________ wrong with a
_______________________ hand, yet without _______________________ or
_______________________." (87:3)
23. When you permit disobedience, what are you permitting the devil to do?
(88:0)
24. Who, as well as children, are benefited by well-ordered homes? (88:1)
C. Rate yourself on how you obey God: Joyfully ____ Submissively ____
Sorrowfully ____ Resentfully ____
1. In what do I enjoy obeying God most?
2. In what do I enjoy obeying God least?
D. Discuss with others:
1. In their obedience to God's law there is perfect freedom. (79:3)
2. What must never go unrebuked? (83:1)
3. What effect has childhood training on adult character? (85:3)
4. How do firmness and harshness contrast (in discipline)?
5. Why are the first three years of training so vital?
6. What about demanding obedience versus breaking a child's will?
7. Discuss: Disrespect and impudence of children to parents.
E. Think on these things:
1. Do I obey God because I love Him?
2. Do I obey God because it is my duty?
3. Do I obey God because I desire the reward?
4. Do I obey God because I am afraid I will be lost?
5. Why should I teach my child to obey?
6. Can I teach him to obey if I do not love him?
7. Can I claim Psalm 40:8 as my personal testimony?
F. Name my latest victory over disobedience.
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INDIVIDUAL RATING SHEET
______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter
OTHER BASIC LESSONS
Section V Date ________
A. Read pages 91-116.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. To what must mothers train their children to yield? (91:2)
2. What is the "veriest cruelty" to a child? (91:3)
3. How much shall we give a child who cries in demand? (92:1)
4. How often may we safely permit a child to manifest anger? (92:2)
5. In what must a child be encouraged? (93:1)
6. What will ruin a child of perverse disposition? (93:3)
7. How do scolding and faultfinding affect a child? (94:2)
8. What two attitudes are to be taught in the home? (97:1)
9. Complete: "They [children] should not be allowed to be careless and
_______________________."(97:3)
10. How many disrespectful words may children speak to parents? (98:5)
11. What grace should be cherished carefully? (99:1)
12. What must a child be taught about things in the home? (101:1)
13. Complete: "Children should be taught that they must not
_______________________ the property of _______________________." (101:3)
14. Complete: "Let them have a few _______________________, and let these
be _______________________ and _______________________." (102:1)
15. If we cooperate with God and obey His laws, what has He promised to
do? (103:1)
16. To ensure future happiness what two areas of education must come first
in child training? (103:5)
17. When does God check up on lax habits and unsanitary home conditions?
(106:1)
18. Are children to be kept indoors constantly, dressed like dolls?
(107:4)
19. What is essential to the health, cheerfulness, and vigor of the
family? (108:1)
20. What two elements are to be cultivated in our children? (110:1)
21. Why should a child have a room of his own? (111:3)
22. By forming habits of regularity and order, in what four things would
children improve? (112:1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
23. To maintain purity, what must be guarded? (114:0)
(a)
(b)
(c)
24. Complete: "Do not allow them to be _______________________ with other
_______________________." (114:3)
25. Against what should we erect barriers? (115:1)
C. Rate yourself in self-control: Good ____ Easily disturbed ____ Fair
____Very nervous ____
1. I have good self-control when I
2. I find it hardest when I
D. Discuss with others:
1. Should children be permitted to romp about the house?
2. How shall we deal with tantrums and temper spells in our children?
3. Why must parents have kindly yet firm discipline in the home training?
4. Discuss the impudent child--cause and cure.
5. How shall we deal with destructive tendencies in children?
6. How can children best learn the "cause and effect" in relation to
disease?
7. Discuss the impact of home surroundings on the child's character.
8. Can we be too tidy and too clean? (109:3)
9. Discuss: "Correct habits." (110:4)
10. What about the sleeping habits of children? Should they be permitted
to sleep with other children?
11. Where do TV, movies, fiction, "funnies," magazines, etc., fit in with
training children to be pure in heart?
12. How carefully are we to watch our developing children? Why?
E. Think on these things:
1. What types of music does my child hear? (93:2)
2. What lessons have I learned with my child? (94:3)
3. "It is a sin to speak impatiently and fretfully or to feel angry--even
though we do not speak." (95:1)
4. Where does sin lie if my child is disobedient or peevish? (98:2)
5. "Parents and children are to sustain so close a relation to God that
the heavenly angels can communicate with them." (99:2)
6. "The boys and girls of the family should feel that they are a part of
the home firm." (107:5, 108:0)
7. Is my home clean?
8. Do I take a bath every day?
9. Am I "too dirt conscious" so that no one can be comfortable in the
home?
10. Is my home neat?
11. Am I pure in heart?
12. Do I permit my child to spend the night with his friends?
F. Name one way I have shown reverence to God today.
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______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter
LESSONS IN PRACTICAL VIRTUES
Section VI Date ________
A. Read pages 119-136.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. How early in life should the child be given daily tasks to perform?
(119:1)
2. Complete: "Give your little _______________________ something to do,
and let them have the _______________________ of supposing they help you."
(119:3)
3. When should a child be taught to cultivate his God-given faculties?
(120:0)
4. If children are not taught to be industrious, what will Satan make of
their minds? (120:1)
5. Complete: Children "should be taught that _______________________ are
_______________________." (120:2)
6. At what age is a child to learn he is to share life's burdens? (120:3)
_______________________
7. As we go about our work, what attitude will link us with angels?
(121:1) _______________________
8. Complete: "One of the surest safeguards of the young is useful
_______________________." (122:1)
9. What is one of the greatest sins parents commit against their children?
(122:5)
10. Complete: "If children have proper home _______________________, they
will not be found upon the _______________________." (123:1)
11. Complete: Abundance of idleness spoils "_______________________ and
_______________________." (123:2)
12. Complete: We are to "regard time as a precious
_______________________, a _______________________ from God, for which every
human being must give an _______________________." (123:2)
13. What can we never recover? (123:4)
14. What two things are not fruits of the Christian tree? (124:2)
15. What is a great curse to the human family? (124:3)
16. Persons who are slow may overcome what habits? (125:2)
17. What is the best discipline a child can have? (126:1)
18. Complete: "Innocent pleasure is never half so satisfying as when it
follows _______________________." (127:1)
19. Complete: "Parents should not allow the love of
_______________________ to control their _______________________." (128:1)
20. What habits will prove an untold blessing in later life? (129:1)
21. What constitutes the actual discipline of life? (129:3, 130:0)
22. What are we to learn and teach to our children? (131:2)
23. What is an essential part of education? (131:3)
24. How many members of the family should practice self-denial? (132:2)
25. How early in life are children to be taught self-denial? (132:3)
26. How are children to be taught to react toward trials and
disappointments? (132:5, 133:0)
27. Complete: "They should be taught to subdue the hasty
_______________________, to withhold the _______________________ word, to
manifest _______________________ kindness, _______________________, and
_______________________." (133:2)
28. What three habits are better for both parents and children than a rich
dowry? (134:1)
29. Who are to be taught to support God's work now? (134:2)
30. Complete: "Do not . . . absorb means in embellishing your
_______________________; for it is God's _______________________, and it
will be _______________________ you again." (134:3)
31. What should never be thrown away? (135:4)
32. How are children to be taught the right use of money? (136:1)
33. Complete: "Let children be taught to keep an _______________________."
(136:3)
C. Rate yourself as a worker: Diligent_____ Regular_____ Slave driver_____
Lazy_____
1. My best qualification as a worker is
2. I need to improve in
D. Discuss with others:
1. Why should children be taught to work at home early in life?
2. Illustrate: Make your children a part of the family firm.
3. How can work be made a pleasure to our children and to us?
4. Discuss the "untold value in industry" in child training.
5. Why is ignorance (in knowing how to work) not acceptable to God?
6. How can we "barricade our children" with principle in work habits?
7. What effect does work have on nerves, body organs, and muscles?
8. How can we best organize a day's work program in the home?
9. What is wrong with being slow, dilatory, or lackadaisical?
10. Discuss work as a form of discipline. What relationship?
11. Why is there nobility in work? What has work to do with character
building?
12. Can we overwork children in the home? Can work discourage a child?
13. Why should children be trained to work thoroughly and with dispatch?
14. What is wrong with the statement "I don't want my child to have the
hard life I have had--to work like I have had to work"?
15. How can we train children that they are not the center of the home
life?
16. Discuss: Teaching children to be unselfish.
17. Why should the child be taught to tithe and save for mission giving?
18. Is our indulgence of our children a sign of our love for them?
19. How shall we teach our children to economize? By example? By
stinginess?
20. What about teaching children to keep personal accounting records?
21. Why not blame children and scold them when in their work they break
things or have accidents? Should they pay for damage done?
E. Think on these things:
1. Do my children enjoy helping me?
2. If not, why not?
3. Do I give each child something to do each day?
4. Do I demand adult perfection?
5. Have I sinned by giving my children nothing to do?
6. Do I keep the fourth commandment, including the ninth verse?
7. Do I waste things because I have money and can buy more?
8. Do I (and my children) keep account of what we spend?
F. Name one thing in this lesson that has helped me to be a better (husband,
wife, son, daughter).
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DEVELOPING CHRISTIAN QUALITIES
Section VII Date ________
A. Read pages 139-158.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. Complete: "Children should not be _______________________ into a
_______________________ maturity, but as long as possible should retain the
freshness and _______________________ of their _______________________
years." (139:1)
2. From what type of excitement should children be free? (139:1)
3. Lest we encourage vanity, what should we not praise in children?
(139:3)
(a)
(b)
(c)
4. How do flattery and indulgence affect a child? (140:2)
5. What three things do children need? (141:1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
6. Name two things we should teach our children. (141:4)
(a)
(b)
7. What must not live in the heart or find room in the home? (143:1)
8. List six things we are to teach our children to be. (143:3)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
9. In what are adults to set the example? (143:5)
(a)
(b)
(c)
10. Name three characteristics that are the curse of the age. (144:2)
(a)
(b)
(c)
11. Complete: "Cherish the precious, _______________________ gem of
_______________________." (144:4)
12. Complete: The sunshine of love, cheerfulness, and happy contentment
promotes "health and vigor of _______________________ and
_______________________" (146:2)
13. What will the sober-minded Christian not be? (146:3)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
14. What is "the very beauty of holiness"? (147:0)
15. What kind of words are we to educate our children to speak? (147:1)
16. Complete: "It is the duty of God's children to be
_______________________." (147:2)
17. Complete: "Let your life be free from _______________________
practices." (150:1)
18. What should parents do all in their power to preserve in their
children? (150:3)
19. Of what should parents be models? (151:1)
20. Complete: "If you want your child to be truthful, be
_______________________ yourself." (151:3)
21. What may harsh discipline often make children fear to do? (151:4)
22. Why should we love and choose the right? (153:1)
23. How many of life's actions are to be stamped with honesty? (154:3)
24. What should our sympathy for children never foster in them? (157:2)
25. Complete: "Lead the youth to feel that they are trusted, and there are
few who will not seek to prove themselves ______________ of the
_______________." (158:1)
C. Rate your cheerfulness: Always ____ Usually ____ Seldom ____ Never___
1. I am always cheerful when I
2. I am always depressed when I
D. Discuss with others:
1. What happens when parents attempt to shove their children into the
limelight?
2. What relationship has a child's dress to its character development?
3. Discuss: "The Secret of True Charm." (140)
4. Discuss the difference between encouraging and praising a child.
5. Where and how is the cornerstone of courtesy in a child laid?
6. How shall we teach humility and modesty to our children?
7. How important is the home atmosphere in character building?
8. Discuss: "Smile, parents; smile, teachers."
9. How shall we teach children to develop the spirit of thankfulness?
10. Why should children be taught "artless simplicity"? Contrast with
"pretense."
11. Explain how to teach children to shun lying, prevarication, deception.
12. Is honesty the "best policy," or is it an ingrained principle of life?
13. Why do some children develop into adult weaklings, mentally and
morally?
14. Contrast sympathy and self-pity in child rearing.
15. Discuss trust versus suspicion in relation to dealing with children.
E. Think on these things:
1. Are my children truly charming?
2. How near like paradise is my home?
3. Is our home courteous?
4. Do I smile in the home even though my heart is sad?
5. Do my children have attentive ears and willing feet and hands?
6. Do I consider it my duty to be cheerful?
7. Am I truthful to my children?
8. Am I honest in my dealings?
9. Am I training my children to be self-reliant?
10. Do I encourage my children to have a sense of honor?
F. Name one courteous act I have done today for my family.
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THE PARAMOUNT TASK---CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Section VIII Date ________
A. Read pages 161-190.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. What is the only treasure we can take from this world? (161:1)
2. Of what two things does strength of character consist? (161:4)
(a)
(b)
3. What other than sanctification "is the work of a lifetime"? (162:2)
4. When may our lives be perfect? (162:3)
5. What is the greatest evidence of Christianity the world can see?
(163:1)
6. What creates a habit and forms a character? (164:1)
7. What is our first duty to God and man? (164:2)
8. What will give strength and solidity of character? (165:1)
9. What is the noblest work in which we can engage? (165:2)
10. What is required to keep crooked traits from strengthening? (167:3)
11. Complete: "He knows your infirmities, and works to
_______________________, not to destroy." (168:2)
12. Who are to help children form right characters? (169:1)
13. What will prove the ruin of our children? (170:3)
14. How much of the time are we dependent on the Holy Spirit in rightly
rearing our children? (172:1)
15. How will God assist parents in child guidance? (172:4)
16. What will God not do? (172:4)
17. What are the elements of Christian character? (173:1)
18. What are parents planting for their own feet in wrong child training?
(175:1)
19. Of what two extremes in child rearing must we beware? (175:2)
20. How can mothers nip sin in the bud in child training? (176:2)
21. What negligence does God particularly condemn? (176:4)
22. When are parents the worst enemies of their children? (177:2)
23. When do parents imperil their souls and those of their children?
(179:1)
24. How should evil youth be treated? (180:0)
25. What makes children grow up at cross-purposes with the world? (181:1)
26. Complete: "Seeking happiness in the path of _______________________
will bring but misery." (182:0)
27. After what model are innocent babes to be fashioned? (184:1)
28. What are we to build around our children? (185:1)
29. When are children to be subdued? (185:2)
30. How can parents train their children for sound health in later years?
(187:1)
C. Rate your character: Strong ____ Uncertain ____ Easily led ____ Weak ____
1. My strongest point is
2. My weakest point is
D. Discuss with others:
1. Discuss: "True character, a quality of the soul." (161:2)
2. What do we mean by "strength of character"?
3. Discuss perfection in development of character. (162:3)
4. What about "characters formed by circumstance"?
5. Why is character study vital to this generation? (169:2)
6. Discuss how to make a transformation in our families.
7. Discuss indulgence versus iron rule.
8. Explain misguided love and sympathy.
9. How can we correct wrong attitudes in our children?
10. What is mental health?
11. Discuss: "High Points." (189:1)
12. Describe the dispositions, morals, and character of children educated
for God. (171:2)
E. Think on these things:
1. Do I have self-control?
2. Am I training my child to have self-control?
3. Does my child have a strong will power or won't power?
4. Is my child wearing the "royal robe woven in heaven's loom"?
F. Name one way I am stronger today than I was yesterday.
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FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER BUILDING
Section IX Date ________
A. Read pages 193-220.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. Complete: The training of the first _______________________ years
outweighs _______________________ the impact of the rest of life in
character formation. (193:1)
2. What lessons in life do children seldom forget? (193:5)
3. In what years is discipline most vital to the child? (194:2)
_______________________
4. What course of discipline produces the best results? (195:0)
5. In what do parents most generally fail? (195:2)
6. In addition to book knowledge, what are children to learn in their
first fifteen years? (195:4)
7. By what means can a mother point her child to his Creator? (197:1)
8. Though children may err, which ones will not go far astray? (198:1)
9. Complete: "It is . . . by a _______________________ acts that habits
are established and character _______________________." (199:2)
10. In what years is character generally formed? (199:3)
11. What draws deep lines upon the tender child mind? (199:4)
12. To perfect Christian graces, what kind of efforts are required?
(200:2)
13. How may parents and teachers help to establish wrong habits in
children? (201:3)
14. What do cute little pranks become as children grow older? (202:1)
15. What power should be acquired while we are young? (202:5)
16. Complete: "In childhood Jesus did the works of an
_______________________ child." (204:4)
17. How should we regard the feelings of other members of the family?
(205:1)
18. What must be cultivated and impressed on the mind of the child?
(205:3)
19. Complete: "That restraint which must be kept upon one would
_______________________ out the life of another." (205:4)
20. Complete: Happiness "follows only in the wake of
_______________________." (206:2)
21. Complete: "You can train the _______________________ your children
much more than you think." (208:2)
22. Complete: "The will is the power of, _______________________, or
choice." (209:2)
23. What power (with God's help) lies within each child? (209:3)
24. How are we to fashion and mold the will of the child? (210:1)
25. Complete: "The will should be guided and _______________________, but
not _______________________ or _______________________." (210:4)
26. What should we never do to children? (210:5)
27. Children should be taught to move from what two sources? (211:0)
28. Into what should children not be forced? (212:1)
29. What great mistake may parents blindly make? (213:1)
30. Complete: "Be careful that you are not _______________________ to your
children." (216:2)
31. What children are in an especially dangerous condition? (218:1, 2)
32. How will children learn gentleness? (218:4)
33. What must not escape our lips? (219:1)
34. What three things have a direct bearing on our children's future?
(219:4, 220:0) _______________________, _______________________, and
_______________________ of parents.
C. Rate yourself as an example to your children: Excellent___ Good___
Poor___ Bad___
1. I hope my children copy me in
2. I hope my children do not copy me in
D. Discuss with others:
1. Discuss character formation in life's first seven years.
2. Why then must discipline be developed in the first three years?
3. Discuss: Sow good seed before the devil sows tares.
4. Contrast the child training of Napoleon, Hume, Voltaire, Samuel,
Joseph.
5. Discuss habit formation--time for, and means of.
6. Why should parents educate their own discriminating powers in child
training?
7. Discuss the human will--its development and control.
8. Can we afford to have disciplinary crises in the home training?
9. Why should parents try to stay young in mind and heart?
10. Discuss the importance of self-control in both parent and child.
11. Discuss the tone of the voice in creating home atmosphere.
12. To what extent do formed habits carry over into the next life?
E. Think on these things:
1. What shall it profit me if I gain a good position and neglect my child
during his infancy?
2. Should I sacrifice my child to gain an education for myself?
3. Mary could have used more money to make Baby Jesus comfortable, but she
gave Him her time and companionship.
4. Am I stimulating the weak traits in my child and repressing the wrong
to give my child a healthy mind?
5. How do I handle a stubborn child?
6. What does my child copy from me?
F. Name one desirable habit I have acquired since I became an adult.
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DISCIPLINE AND ITS ADMINISTRATION
Section X Date ________
A. Read pages 223-268.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. What is the object of true discipline? (223:1)
2. What is the threefold work of parents? (223:4)
3. In whose hands does the destiny of our children rest? (224:1)
4. What is the price of heaven? (224:4)
5. What right have youth with a sense of honor? (225:4)
6. On what should children be thrown as soon as wisely possible? (226:1)
7. How shall we react to children governing themselves? (228:2)
8. Complete: "The characters formed in this _______________________ will
determine the _______________________ destiny." (229:4)
9. At what moment is discipline of a child to begin? (230:1)
10. In what spirit are parents to bend the will of a child? (230:4)
11. Why do some parents reject the Bible plan of discipline? (233:3)
12. Complete: "Repress the _______________________, and
_______________________ the good." (234:1)
13. What sin is almost universal? (234:4)
14. Whom will God hold responsible for wayward children? (235:2)
15. Where should disobedience never be tolerated? (236:2)
16. Complete: "He will make no _______________________ for the
mismanagement of _______________________." (237:4)
17. How long shall children be subject to parents? (240:2)
18. How are children to be instructed? (244:4)
19. Complete: "Scolding and fretting never _______________________."
(246:2)
20. Complete: "Give _______________________ commands, but see that these
are _______________________" (247 :3)
21. How shall we deal with neglectful children? (248:2)
22. When only should whipping be used? (250:2)
23. Why should we never shake a child? (252:2)
24. Before disciplining, what two things are parents to do? (252:3)
(a)
(b)
25. What may every fault and mistake become? (255:3)
26. What is love's twin sister? (258:2)
27. What shall we teach a child about uncorrected faults? (258:3)
28. Complete: "Let them [parents] be _______________________ of censure."
(259:1)
29. What children need the most consideration? (260:1)
30. What is the twin sister of justice? (262:3)
31. By what combined influences are children to be ruled? (263:2)
32. What three things are essential to every family? (264:3)
(a)
(b)
(c)
33. Even before their own comfort, of what are parents to think? (268:0)
C. Rate yourself as a disciplinarian: Loving, kind ____ Consistent ____
Unpredictable ____ Cold, severe ____
1. Before any action is taken I always study
2. After the deed is over I usually
D. Discuss with others:
1. The chief objective of discipline.
2. How far shall we go in children's self-government?
3. Why indulgent parents will lose heaven.
4. Commanding our children after us (as did Abraham).
5. How shall we learn the principles of family government?
6. Parental unity in home discipline.
7. Disciplining in anger.
8. Discipline by whipping or shaking children.
9. The place of prayer and reasoning in child discipline.
10. What is one of the greatest curses in any household? (231 :3)
11. Can men who neglect their children's training justify their call to
the ministry or to teaching? (232:0)
12. How shall we react to a boy wishing to run away? (241:1).
E. Think on these things:
1. Why do I teach my child to obey--for my convenience or his good?
2. What kind of family do I present to the world?
3. If I find that one method of discipline is not working, do I continue
using it, try another, or give up?
4. When father and mother disagree over discipline, what happens to the
child?
5. Are my words few or many?
6. Do I see that my commands are carried out?
F. Name one method I have found to be beneficial in my home.
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FAULTY DISCIPLINE
Section XI Date ________
A. Read pages 271-290.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. What is the key to a child's heart? (271:1)
2. What often makes prodigal sons? (271:2)
3. What will indulgence unsettle for time and eternity? (272:4)
4. For what must parents answer in the judgment? (273:2)
5. Complete: "Parents should not _______________________ lightly over the
sins of their children." (273:3)
6. When children have not learned to obey, what will they develop? (274:1)
7. When do we become accessory to a child's sins? (276:1)
8. When indulging children, to whom do we give them? (277:2)
9. When will "fashionable piety" have little value? (278:1)
10. Complete: "Be what you _______________________ your
_______________________ to be." (278 :2)
11. Complete: Parents should reason from _______________________ to
_______________________ with children. (279:2)
12. What are we to give our children courage to do? (279:3)
13. Complete: "Continual _______________________ bewilders, but does not
reform." (281:0)
14. What attitude may a parent's arbitrary course of action stir up?
(282:0)
15. What three things are parents not authorized to do? (282:4)
(a)
(b)
(c)
16. What excites impatience in children? (283:1)
17. How often is a child to gain disciplinary advantage over its mother?
(283:3)
18. Name two things that cause great harm. (283:4)
19. What kind of parents wreck the happiness of their children? (284:1)
20. What parental attitude may destroy a child's confidence? (285:1)
21. What will parental severity stir up in children? (286:1)
22. In what manner are we never to speak to our children? (286:3)
23. Complete: "It is proverbial that grandparents, as a rule, are
_______________________ to bring up their _______________________." (288:1)
24. How often should grandparents or other relatives interfere in family
discipline? (288:1)
25. How many times may impertinence be tolerated in a child? (288:2)
26. How far apart is it well for related families to live? (289:2)
27. Why is distance between related families best? (290:1, 2)
C. Rate yourself as a child trainer: Inspire them____ Confuse them____
Encourage them____ Discourage them____
1. I encourage my child most by
2. I discourage my child most by
D. Discuss with others:
1. What will weld the hearts of parents and children together?
2. How are prodigal sons made?
3. Just why is it a sin to indulge children?
4. Taking the word of a child versus the word of an adult Christian.
5. Discuss the heavy burden of the spoiled child as he matures.
6. What are the effects of lax discipline on a child's religious
experience?
7. What about relaxing discipline as a child reaches the teens?
8. What about bringing questionable amusements into the home?
9. Discuss the effects of faultfinding by parents on children.
10. What are the natural reactions to harsh discipline?
11. Discuss: Asking (requesting) or ordering children to do things.
12. Discuss: Ridicule and taunting.
13. What about unnecessary restrictions and denial of reasonable
privileges?
14. Discuss: Grandparents and discipline of children.
15. How does the ratio of distance and near relatives relate to home
happiness?
E. Think on these things:
1. Do I love my child, or am I indifferent to his need of discipline?
2. Am I like Eli or Elisha?
3. Do I encourage disobedience in my child by being indecisive?
4. Am I causing my children to despise religion by my harshness?
5. Do I refuse my child simple pleasures for fear he will do wrong?
6. Do relatives interfere with my discipline?
F. Name one way I have inspired my child today.
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE MENTAL POWERS
Section XII Date ________
A. Read pages 293-336.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. What two parts of a child does true education develop? (293:1)
(a)
(b)
2. What is the first great lesson in education? (293:3)
3. Complete: "In God's plan there is no place for
_______________________." (294:1)
4. (a) Where was the first school located? (294:2) _______________________
(b) Who was its first teacher? (294:2) _______________________
(c) What was its first textbook? (294:2) _______________________________
5. In educating youth, what should be combined? (295:2)
6. What spirit should true education awaken? (296:1)
7. What science will the highest education teach? (296:4, 297:0)
8. What spirit are our children not to imbibe? (298:1)
9. When is true education completed? (298:4)
10. Where should the first eight to ten years of life be spent? (300:1)
11. In the first six or seven years, what training should be emphasized?
(300:3)
12. What are the first habits to be taught a child? (301:1)
13. Complete: "Do not send your little ones to _______________________ too
_______________________." (302:1)
14. When children attend school, what kind of instruction are they to
receive? (303:2)
15. On what foundation should all education be based? (304:1)
16. Complete: "Christian parents, you must make provision for your
children to be _______________________ in _______________________
principles." (305:1)
17. In what way does secular education confuse our children? (305:2)
18. Complete: "Schools should be established if there are no more than
_______________________ to attend." (308:3, 309:0)
19. Why should parents sacrifice to create church schools? (309:0)
20. What shall be the character of the work done in our schools? (310:2)
21. What is the relation of the church to its children? (312:2)
22. How is the expense of our schools to be borne? (313:1)
23. What is the church to do for children who cannot pay tuition? (314:1)
24. What is the relationship of our mission giving to our investing in the
education of our children? (314:4)
25. To parents who think of sending their children to public schools, what
question is asked? (315:1)
26. What united objectives are parents and teachers to have? (318:1)
27. What may make the work of a Christian teacher fruitless? (319:3)
28. Why should parents and teachers counsel together? (322:1)
29. What kind of parents will not criticize the teachers? (325:3, 4)
30. What are our schools to become more and more like? (329:2)
31. How many of our youth are to have the benefits of Christian education?
(332:1)
32. Why should children not attend school the year round? (333:1)
33. To whose authority are parents to pledge support? (334:2)
C. Rate yourself as a patron of the school: Strong promoter _____ Cooperate
with the school _____ Criticize _____ Do nothing for the school ____
1. My best contribution to the school is
2. My least contribution to the school is
D. Discuss with others:
1. Discuss the meaning of true education and its goal.
2. Why shall our schools not foster rivalry?
3. How are practical and literary training to be combined? Why?
4. Why will true education extend into eternity? Implications?
5. Discuss: "Infancy extends to the age of six or seven years."
6. When should a child first attend school?
7. How does secular education neutralize Bible truth?
8. Why is the church school vital to the education of our children?
9. Discuss the financial responsibility of the church for the school.
10. Compare "teamwork" by parents and also by parents and teachers.
11. Discuss: The teacher is a supplement to the home.
12. Discuss the effect of parental criticism of a child's teachers.
13. Why should our schools become more and more like the schools of the
prophets? In what respects?
14. Discuss paragraphs 2 and 3 on page 336: Never-ending education!
E. Think on these things:
1. Will a Christian education help my child to do more work or less?
2. Will the school my child is attending now prepare him for the school
above?
3. Should my child run the streets for the first eight to ten years of his
life?
4. If there is no school in the church I attend, should I move, or
encourage the church to open one?
5. Am I a problem to my child's teacher?
6. Do I keep my child in school the year round?
7. Do I ever criticize my child's teacher?
F. Name one way I have helped to make my school more like the school of the
prophets.
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PRIMARY IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Section XIII Date ________
A. Read pages 339-368.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. Name three things that will add to health, vitality, and development of
mind and body. (339:1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
2. To what body system does power of the will give energy? (339:4)
3. What will increase strength the most in the young? (340:1)
4. Name the greatest curse to children in this age. (340:4)
5. Complete: "Selfish amusements are _______________________ to the
morals." (341:2)
6. Who are happiest and healthiest? (342:1)
7. What will the discipline of systematic, well-regulated labor do to the
character? (342:3)
8. What will refresh the student's mind? (343:0)
9. Complete: "The health should be as sacredly guarded as the
_______________________." (343:0)
10. What did employment bring to our first parents? (345:1)
____________________________
11. Complete: "His [Jesus'] life was one of _______________________
industry." (346:1)
12. What are youth to be taught concerning life's meaning? (347:1)
13. What habits should manual training develop? (348:3)
14. Name the dangers in neglecting to teach our children to work. (350:2)
15. How many children should share in home duties? (350:4)
16. For what are boys and girls equally accountable? (351:3)
17. Complete: "Muscles need exercise. . . . Let their
_______________________ be to some purpose." (352:1)
18. How can parents draw their children closer to Christ? (352:2)
19. What will a clear conscience do to the intellect? (353:1)
20. With what should young men grow up? (355:1)
21. In what should fathers and sons work together? (355:5)
22. What is one most valuable area of manual training? (356:2)
23. With what special value in foods need we become acquainted? (357:1)
24. If you must have a one-sided education, which shall it be? (358:2)
25. Where is the source of all our acts? (360:1)
26. What is the relationship of body organs to the mind? (360:2)
27. What subjects should be the basis of all educational effort? (361:0)
28. Complete: "The laws of _______________________ are the laws of God."
(363:1)
29. Where are God's laws written? (363:1)
30. What is next in importance to correct posture? (364:4)
31. List God's true remedies. (366:1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
32. Complete: "I must have wisdom to be a faithful _______________________
of my body." (367:0)
C. Rate your attitude toward health: As sacred as my character
_______________________
Keep a good balance on all health habits ______ Think of my health when I
get sick ______ Never think of it ______
1. I observe the following health habits
______________________________________________
2. I need to improve by ______________________________________________
D. Discuss with others:
1. How to build muscle tone; healthful action of body organs.
2. The place of the willpower in maintaining good health.
3. How can children develop mental and physical faculties?
4. Indolence--the curse of the age.
5. The relationship of the conscience to mental and physical health.
6. The blessings of poverty.
7. Work and happiness--their relationship.
8. The discipline of systematic, well-regulated labor.
9. Seeing the science of work.
10. Should boys be taught to do housework?
11. Should girls be taught the mechanics of the family car?
12. Exercise with a purpose.
13. Is there any real need to teach agriculture today in our schools?
14. The laws of nature and the laws of God.
15. Remedies prescribed by the Great Physician.
16. Importance of regularity.
E. Think on these things:
1. Do I teach my child to share cheerfully the burdens of life?
2. Do I teach him that work is essential?
3. Do I work in the open air as much as possible?
4. Does my child know how to cook?
5. Do I have a knowledge of physiology and hygiene?
6. Am I regular in my eating and sleeping?
7. Do I see that my child is regular in his eating and sleeping?
8. Do I have a good posture?
9. Do I use my voice as I should?
F. I have spent _______ hours _______ minutes in outdoor labor today.
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______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter
MAINTAINING PHYSICAL FITNESS
Section XIV Date ________
A. Read pages 371-410.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. Who occupies a most important position in our homes? (371:1)
_______________________
2. What is more important to a girl's education than even piano? (371:2)
3. Complete: "Life's happiness is _______________________ up with
_______________________ in common _______________________." (371:3)
4. Which is the most valuable of all arts? (372:1)
5. What is every woman's double duty? (372:4)
6. What is our religious duty? (373:2)
7. From what are more souls lost than we realize? (373:4)
8. What weakens the blood-making organs? (374:1)
9. Complete: "Young ladies should be _______________________ instructed in
cooking." (375:3)
10. How can barriers against folly be built around daughters? (376:2)
11. What two things are both boys and girls to be taught? (376:4)
12. Complete: "Skill, economy, and tact [in cooking] is a
_______________________." (376:5)
13. From what does the body repair broken-down tissues? (378:3)
14. When should a child's eating habits be formed? (379:1)
15. What will care and regularity in the feeding of infants tend to make
them? (379:1)
16. By what are spiritual, mental, and physical powers affected? (380:0)
17. List four things originally placed in man's diet. (380:1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
18. From what two things should our diets be free? (380:2)
(a)
(b)
19. What tendencies does the use of flesh foods strengthen in us? (382:1)
20. Why are flesh foods doubly objectionable now? (382:3)
21. Complete: "Many die of diseases wholly due to _______________________
eating." (383:0)
22. All who are waiting for the Lord's return will eventually do away with
what type of food? (383:2)
23. What foods contain all the needed properties to make good blood?
(384:1)*
*See Counsels on Diet and Foods, pp. 81-97.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
24. Complete: "There should not be many kinds [of foods] at any
_______________________." (385:1)
25. What is to be banished at mealtime? (387:1)
26. Why should meals be eaten regularly? (387:4)
27. How long must the stomach rest between meals? (389:2)
28. What should the breakfast meal be? (390:2)
29. What is the cause of most of life's ills? (394:1)
30. Name four things in which excessive indulgence is sin. (394:3)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
31. In what will God not interfere? (396:1)
32. To what is intemperance in study compared? (396:4)
33. On what are we living when we overwork? (397:3)
34. If we are temperate, with what will we dispense in eating? (398:3)
35. What is the solution to the liquor problem? (401:3)
36. Where does intemperance often begin? (403:2)
37. Why do tea and coffee injure the nervous system? (403:2)
38. Complete: "Those who use tobacco in any form are not clear
_______________________." (404:1)
39. In what is our only path to safety? (405:2)
40. Where must children be educated in character formation? (407:1)
41. How early in life are temperance and self-control to be taught?
(408:2)
42. What is to be taught in every home and every school? (408:4)
43. With what thought are the youth to be impressed? (409:1)
C. Rate how temperate (Over, Right Amount, Under ) you are in:
eating ____ ____ ____
sleeping ____ ____ ____
working ____ ____ ____
studying ____ ____ ____
D. Discuss with others:
1. Contrast health reform with health deform.
2. The relationship of health and happiness with good cookery.
3. Am I what I eat--mentally, physically, spiritually?
4. How is the appetite perverted?
5. Reasons for discarding the use of all flesh foods.
6. Why must there be no unpleasantness at mealtimes?
7. Why never eat one morsel between meals?
8. Breakfast--what kind of meal should it be?
9. Indulgence of appetite versus temperance.
10. What has temperance to do with sanctification?
11. What is harmful about tea, coffee, spices, stimulants?
12. Breakdown of body, beclouding of mind, sensualizing the soul.
E. Think on these things:
1. Am I a good cook?
2. Do I eat between meals?
3. Do I talk about pleasant things at the table?
4. Am I temperate in my work?
5. Am I temperate in my study?
6. Do I eat enough? Too much?
F. Name one thing I as the (husband, wife, son, daughter) can do to make
mealtime more pleasant.
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______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter
FITTING ATTIRE
Section XV Date ________
A. Read pages 413-436.
B. Check your knowledge:
1. God desires our clothing to be: (413:1)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
2. What three things should characterize our appearance? (413: 2)
(a)
(b)
(c)
3. Of what are our clothes an index? (413:4)
4. How far are we to follow customs? (414:1)
5. Complete: "They should shun _______________________." (414:3)
6. We are to act as though whose eye is upon us? (415:1)
7. How are we not to class neatness and decency in dress? (415:2)
8. What texts give the Bible's timeless rule for dress? (416:1)
(a)
(b)
9. Complete: "Costly apparel stifles the _______________________ to do
good." (416:4)
10. What kind of dress will protect a modest woman? (417:3)
11. Suggest four characteristics for our clothing. (419:4)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
12. What do we do when we lose taste for neatness and order in dress?
(419:6, 420:0)
13. What does the wearing of gaudy clothing advertise? (420:2)
14. Complete: "Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good
_______________________, of becoming _______________________, and suited for
_______________________." (420:3)
15. Complete: "Practice _______________________ in your outlay of means
for _______________________." (421:1)
16. How will others judge our hearts and minds when we wear artificials
and gold? (421:5)
17. Complete: "Any device designed to _______________________ attention to
the _______________________ or to excite admiration is
_______________________ from the modest apparel which God's Word
_______________________." (423:2)
18. How careful will Christians be of their dress? (425:1)
19. Complete: "It is always right to be neat and to be clad
_______________________, in a manner becoming to your
_______________________ and _______________________ life." (425:2)
20. How should one's clothing fit? (425:3)
21. How should body extremities be clothed? (426:3)
22. What encourages irreverence? (427: 5)
23. How are we to dress for church services? (428:2)
24. Complete: "Idolatry of dress is a _______________________." (432:4)
25. What does idolatry of dress destroy? (433:2)
26. When Satan captivates a mother, what are his spoils? (434:0)
27. Those who spend much time on dress are like what tree? (435:4)
C. Rate the way you dress: Appropriately___ Plainly___ Shabbily___
Gaudily___
1. My most becoming attire is
2. I could improve on
D. Discuss with others:
1. What is appropriate and becoming dress?
2. How can character be judged by one's dress? (413, 415)
3. When is it safe to follow fashion in dress?
4. What is meant by simplicity in dress? (417, 421, 427)
5. Heaven's dress.
6. Should all Adventists dress alike? Uniforms?
7. Why not wear feathers, artificials, and extra trimmings? (421-23)
8. What is true beauty? (424)
9. Dress to fit one's age and position.
10. Clothing the extremities--why?
11. Idolatry in dress.
12. How shall we educate children regarding dress?
E. Think on these things:
1. Are my clothes neat?
2. Are my clothes healthful?
3. Are my clothes appropriate?
4. Are my clothes becoming?
5. Are my clothes clean?
6. Are my clothes modest?
7. Are my clothes of good quality?
8. Do my clothes fit properly?
F. Name one way I can "preach the gospel" by my dress.