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 SHEET CG-SG 17.1
______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter CG-SG 17.2