A Word to Parents by B. E. H.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1907

A Word to Parents

By B. E. H.

It may seem to be a very little thing for your boy or girl to be absent from school a day or two each month, or even each week. But it is not so. Every devoted church-school teacher carries a burden for each pupil in school, and has carefully laid plans for applying the truths of each day’s work to the heart of each pupil who may find it difficult to make the application without help. In a single lesson missed, new thoughts have been brought out which your child may need. Your child may have been the one for whom the watchful, prayerful teacher had a special burden when preparing that lesson. If the child loses the connection made by each recitation in the line of thought he is studying, he at once loses his interest in the study. Parents can do much to make the school a success by keeping their children regular in attendance and by taking a special interest in talking with them about their lessons.—B. E. H., in The Educational Messenger.