Section II

Methods and Textbooks

Date ________CG-SG 11.3

A. Read pages 31-60.CG-SG 11.4

B. Check your knowledge:CG-SG 11.5

1. Complete: “Prepare the way for your child to _______________________ your _______________________.” (31:1)CG-SG 11.6

2. Who will educate your children if you do not? (31:1)

 CG-SG 11.7

3. Complete: “A _______________________ tends to quiet the _______________________ of the little one.” (32:1)CG-SG 11.8

4. Why should parents study, test, compare others’ methods with their own? (32:2)

 CG-SG 12.1

5. What three things is every mother to do with her children? (33:4)CG-SG 12.2

(a)
(b)
(c)CG-SG 12.3

6. Children should be first taught from what book? (34:1)CG-SG 12.4

7. Complete: “There is _______________________ and _______________________ for him in the study of nature.” (34:4)CG-SG 12.5

8. Complete: “Too much talk will lead them [children] to _______________________ even _______________________ instruction.” (35:0)CG-SG 12.6

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)CG-SG 12.7

10. By giving children something to do with hands and minds we advance them in _______________________. (36:0)CG-SG 12.8

11. Complete: “As soon as strength and _______________________ power are sufficiently developed, he [the child] should be given _______________________ to _______________________ in the home.” (36:1)CG-SG 12.9

12. What four things are children to be taught not to do? (37:3)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)CG-SG 13.1

13. Why are children often bold, forward, and impertinent? (38:0)

 CG-SG 13.2

14. Complete: “The child must be taught to _______________________ himself. The _______________________ must be trained to _______________________ the dictates of _______________________ and _______________________.” (39:2)CG-SG 13.3

15. What is to be made the rule of life in child training? (41:1)

 CG-SG 13.4

16. What is to be made a pleasant theme in the family circle? (42:1)

 CG-SG 13.5

17. What will banish fear in a timid child? (42:2)

 CG-SG 13.6

18. Complete: “The book of nature . . . afforded an exhaustless _______________________ of instruction and _______________________.” (45:4)

 CG-SG 13.7

19. Besides revealing God, of what does the book of nature constantly warn us? (46:1)

 CG-SG 14.1

20. In what may children be taught to see Christ? (46:4, 47:0)

 CG-SG 14.2

21. What should be the schoolroom for little children? (48:1)

 CG-SG 14.3

22. How and where are little children to be free to play? (48:3)

 CG-SG 14.4

23. What will the study of nature do for the mind? (49:2)

 CG-SG 14.5

24. What are we to discern in God’s created works? (54:1)

 CG-SG 14.6

25. From the ant and the bee we may learn a lesson of _______________________. (59:1, 2)

 CG-SG 14.7

C. Rate your methods of teaching: Excellent____ Good____ Fair____ Poor____CG-SG 15.1

1. My most effective method is____CG-SG 15.2

2. My least effective method is____CG-SG 15.3

D. Discuss with others:CG-SG 15.4

1. What is meant by “Prepare the way for your child to obey your commands cheerfully”? (31:1)

 CG-SG 15.5

2. Discuss how to educate for the “restful spirit” and “loving heart” development. (31:2)

 CG-SG 15.6

3. How does the fretful, impatient mother, nurse, or babysitter affect the child? (32:1)

 CG-SG 15.7

4. How are we to teach little children to do independent thinking? (35:1)

 CG-SG 15.8

5. How early in life shall children be taught to work? (36:1)

 CG-SG 15.9

6. What does the performance of everyday duties have to do with character development? (37:1)

 CG-SG 15.10

7. Why is special care needed in training talented children? (37:3)

 CG-SG 15.11

8. Discuss the matter of praising children, showing them off, flattering them. (37:4, 38:0)

 CG-SG 15.12

9. How are God’s two books (nature and the Bible) related in child training?


CG-SG 15.13

10. Discuss: Seeing God in nature (beware of pantheism). Seeing God’s footprints.


CG-SG 15.14

11. Discuss the mental, physical, moral, and spiritual benefits of nature study.


CG-SG 15.15

12. Rightly understood, “the world is a lesson book, life a school.” (55:3)CG-SG 15.16

E. Think on these things:CG-SG 15.17

1. Do I prepare the way for my child to obey cheerfully?


CG-SG 15.18

2. How much time do I allow Satan to teach my child?


CG-SG 16.1

3. Do I talk too much?


CG-SG 16.2

4. Do I have the two attributes of kindliness and affection that are to attend the teaching of my child? (33:1)

 CG-SG 16.3

5. Why should I never scold my child? (33:3)

 CG-SG 16.4

6. What spirit must pervade my home if it is to develop in my child? (36:1)

 CG-SG 16.5

7. On what day of the week should I especially behold God in nature? (55:1)

 CG-SG 16.6

8. Do the beauties of nature remind me of my heavenly home?


CG-SG 16.7

F. Name one lesson I have learned from the book of nature today.CG-SG 16.8

INDIVIDUAL RATING SHEETCG-SG 17.1

______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ DaughterCG-SG 17.2