3l8 METHODS IN TEACHING 



family. Discuss the family and the home with the little 

 ones. Do more than talk to them; lead them into thinking 

 and expressing their own ideas, so doing much of the talking 

 themselves. 



The family : Formed of whom ? children must be loved 

 and cared for; children should have consideration for 

 parents and an understanding of some of 

 Family ^ e ^ ur< ^ ens an( ^ responsibilities of parents; 



responsibilities should rest upon every mem- 

 ber of the family ; children need some fixed tasks in order to 

 help and also to learn how to work; interdependence of 

 members of a family. 



Authority in the family : Its necessity, seen in the need of 

 constant care for infants, of long continued training for chil- 

 dren, and in the great number of things that there are for 

 children to learn before being ready to go out into the world ; 

 necessity for punishment after wrong doing, its nature; 

 parents the center of all authority; older children, if they 

 are reliable, grow into a share in the parental authority ; the 

 honor to the child who shares this responsibility ; the respon- 

 sibility attached to it; the necessity for all children to learn 

 how to govern themselves and how to help govern others. 



Ownership: Individual, as in marbles belonging to one 

 boy; common, as in a swing for the pleasure of all the chil- 

 dren ; care of property ; accumulation of individual property 

 and its relation to the good of all; increasing the scope of 

 common property, and its relation to the individual. 



Bonds of union: Mutual interests; its effectiveness in 

 training for the future ; personal affection, the strongest bond 

 in the life of many people in home life, patriotism, religion. 



Early in the school year discuss with the children the 



