Religious Education in the FamilyCope, Henry Frederick
Religion
Religious Education in the Family
Cope, Henry Frederick
Families -- Religious life; Religious education
Any blank book will do, or even a composition book. It will help to keep
hands happily occupied if you make your own covers and cut out gilt
letters for the title. Often you can find pictures to illustrate the
stories chosen; sometimes you may prefer to draw the illustrations. Keep
_The Golden Deed Book_ in a safe and convenient place, because there
ought to be something to go into it every week. For instance, did you
read the other day of the young man who jumped in front of a train to
save a young girl? He lost his life, but he saved hers. Can you find
that story and put it in the book? Perhaps you have found one that seems
even more fitting.
10. _Various plans._--Giving happiness creates it. Plan something every
Sunday for the happiness of others. Occasionally go in a body to call on
someone who will be made happy by the visit.
If you walk in the park or elsewhere, see how many things you can
discover that you have read about in the Bible or know to be mentioned
there.
Try the game of "guessing hymns." While someone plays the familiar
tunes, each takes a turn at identifying them and the hymns to which they
belong.
Set aside twenty minutes for each one to write a letter to send to the
brother or sister, relative or friend, at a distance. Even the baby can
scratch something which he thinks is a "real enough" letter in penciled
scribbles.
Close the day with quiet reading and song, or with the memory exercise
in which all endeavor to repeat some simple psalm or a few verses, like
the Beatitudes. All children like to repeat the Lord's Prayer in family
concert.
I. References for Study
Emilie Poulsson, _Love and Law in Child Training_, chaps. i-iv.
Milton Bradley, $1.00.
_Happy Sundays for Children_ and _Sunday in the Home_. Pamphlets.
American Institute of Child Life, Philadelphia, Pa.
II. Further Reading
_Sunday Play._ Pamphlet. American Institute of Child Life,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Hodges, _Training of Children in Religion_, chap. xiii. Appleton,
$1.50.
III. Methods and Materials
_A Year of Good Sundays._ Pamphlet. American Institute of Child
Life, Philadelphia, Pa.
IV. Topics for Discussion
1. What is the real problem of Sunday in the family? Is it that of
securing quiet or of wisely directing the action of the young?
2. Recall your childhood's Sundays. Were they for good or ill?
3. What are the arguments against children playing on Sunday? Is
there any essential relation between the play of children and the
wide-open Sunday of commercialized amusements?
4. Can you describe forms of play in which practically all the
family might unite?
5. What characteristics should distinguish play on Sundays from
other days? Is it wise to attempt thus to distinguish this day?
6. Criticize the suggestions on occupations for Sunday afternoons.
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