And goodness is as contagious as badness. Children catch the spirit of social love and idealism in the family. Where men and women are deeply concerned with all that makes the world better for lives, better for babies and mothers, for workers, and, above all, for the values of the spirit gained through leisure, opportunities, and higher incentives; where the family is more concerned with folks than with furniture; where habitually it thinks of people as Jesus did, as the objects most of all worth seeking, worth investing in, there children receive direction, habituation, and motivation for the life of religion, the life that binds them in glad love to the service of their fellows, and makes them think of all their life as the one great chance to serve, to make a better world, and to bring God's great family closer together here. I. References for Study G.A. Coe, _Education in Religion and Morals_, pp. 142-50. Revell, $1.35. W.S. Athearn, _The Church School_, pp. 85-102. Pilgrim Press, $1.00. G. Johnson, _Education by Plays and Games_, Part I. Ginn & Co., $0.90. II. Further Reading E.D. Angell, _Play_. Little, Brown & Co., $1.50. Fisher, Gulick, _et al._, "Ethical Significance of Play," _Materials for Religious Education_, pp. 197-215. Religious Education Association, $0.50. Publications of the Play Ground Association. III. Methods and Materials PLAY Forbush, _Manual of Play_. Jacobs, $1.00. A. Newton, _Graded Games_. Barnes, $1.25. Von Palm, _Rainy Day Pastimes_. Dana Estes, $1.00. Johnson, _When Mother Lets Us Help_. Moffat, Yard & Co., $0.75. WORK Canfield, _What Shall We Do Now?_ Stokes, $1.50. Beard, _Jack of All Trades_. Scribner, $2.00. Beard, _Things Worth Doing_. Scribner, $2.00. Bailey, _Garden Making_. Macmillan, $1.50. Bailey (ed.), _Something to Do_ (magazine). School Arts Publishing Co. IV. Topics for Discussion 1. Is the quiet child an ideal child? How far should we go in restraining activity? 2. The relative advantages of work and leisure for children. What of the value of chores to you; did you do them? Describe any forms of children's service in the home which have come under your observation. 3. What forms of community service can be done by children and by young people? 4. Recall any lessons learned by activity in your early home life. 5. Give in their order, according to your judgment, the potencies for religious character in the home. FOOTNOTES: [12] A short list of books on child activity in the home is appended at the end of this chapter; a fairly complete list, long enough for any family, will be found on p. 117 of _The Church School_, by W.S. Athearn. [13] See W.N. Hutchins, _Graded Social Service for the Sunday School_. CHAPTER VIII THE HOME AS A SCHOOL[14]