Home Education by MRS. C. C. LEWIS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 11, 1915

Home Education

By MRS. C. C. LEWIS

Practical Problems of Home Makers—No. 7

Home Education

MRS. C. C. LEWIS

FROM the ages of your children, I am sure that what you need first is Early Education, one of the courses of the Mothers’ Normal Department of the Fireside Correspondence School. This is a course of twenty lessons, which are to be lived out with your children from their earliest age until they are five years old. Of course, you can pursue the studies and make out the recitation papers as rapidly as you have time; but after that the lessons are to be studied again and again, and slowly and patiently put into practice as the months go by, until your children are five years of age. Then you will take up the First Grade, and this will carry you two years farther. It is thought best to allow two years for the child to finish this grade, especially since he begins at the early age of five years. We would not have the child sent to school thus early, but we think the mother in her own home can take up such studies to good advantage. By the time you have finished these two courses, I hope lessons will be prepared in the other grades, although these two courses are all that are ready at the present time.

You have a beautiful little flock of children, and I am glad that these lessons have been prepared so that you can take them up and instruct your children in your own home. If you do this faithfully and intelligently, I am sure the Lord will bless your efforts, and you will see fruit of your work not only in this life, but in the life to come.

Helps for Adventist Mothers

I have read — for a number of years, and think it contains many good things; but, as you say, it is not designed for Adventist mothers. We, however, do have matter designed for Adventist mothers, which it would seem you are not familiar with. I refer to the department in the REVIEW AND HERALD called Our Homes, which contains every week important matter for mothers who are training their children. Then also we have the journal Christian Education, which is devoted to the education of the young, and has a department called Home Education. This department contains excellent instruction for mothers under just such circumstances as yours.

You make inquiry about how to prepare food for little children without the use of meat, so as to give them the proper nourishment and variety, as there are so many vegetable foods that a grown person can eat which children cannot. In reply to this question I am sending you a little booklet which I bought for twenty-five cents at the Washington Sanitarium. I am sure you will find it very helpful.

Again: we have the journal Life and Health, devoted to the subject of healthful living. The January number contains five up-to-date articles upon how to make the hygienic meal more attractive yet inexpensive. The subscription price of the REVIEW is $2; Christian Education, $1; Sabbath School Worker, 50 cents; Youth’s Instructor, $1.25; Life and Health, $1; total, $5.75. I am having samples of these journals sent you.

Why should our mothers go hungry for good reading matter to help them in their homes, or why should they go to other sources for help, when we have so much excellent instruction in our own publications?