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]

The home is so mighty as a school because, requiring little time for formal instruction, it enlists its scholars so largely in informal activities.  It trains for life by living; it trains as an institution, by a group of activities, a series of duties, a set of habits.  If the home is to prepare for social living it will be most of all and best of all by its organization and conduct as a social institution.