p. 15 | Early Education in the Home by C. C. Lewis

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Sep 14, 1916

Early Education in the Home

By C. C. Lewis

C. C. LEWIS

FROM the recitation papers of the mothers who are taking lessons in the Mothers’ Normal Department of the Fireside Correspondence School we frequently get interesting experiences of the application of the principles and methods they are studying to the training of their children. Here, for example, is the experience of a missionary mother in the Philippine Islands. She says:—

“I think the suggestions in this lesson are very practical. This week I have been using them. My little girl has been playing store, and has taken great delight in it. “When it came time to make bread, she came in as usual to help. I began telling her the story of how the flour is made, and she became so interested that she forgot to ask for a piece of dough,

and just stood and listened. Then she wanted to know how all the things in the kitchen were made.”

“She has had a windmill, a sand pile, and a blackboard, and has played at blowing soap bubbles.”

“One time she treated her rubber doll for sore eyes until she washed the paint out. But she enjoyed it, and learned that sore eyes should be bathed every few minutes with small bits of cotton dipped in boracic acid solution, and that she should not wash both eyes with the same piece of cotton.”

Probably this lesson, which the child has thus early learned by treating her doll, is unknown to many mothers. This is only one of many practical lessons learned by the mothers and their children who are pursuing the instruction of the Mothers’ Normal Department. I wish more mothers would embrace the opportunity thus afforded them for help in training their children. Full particulars will be sent to any one addressing the Fireside Correspondence School, Takoma Park, D. C.