Child Guidance -- Study Guide

Section IX

Fundamental Elements of Character Building

Date ________ CG-SG 50.9

A. Read pages 193-220. CG-SG 50.10

B. Check your knowledge: CG-SG 50.11

1. Complete: The training of the first _______________________ years outweighs _______________________ the impact of the rest of life in character formation. (193:1) CG-SG 50.12

2. What lessons in life do children seldom forget? (193:5)

  CG-SG 50.13

3. In what years is discipline most vital to the child? (194:2) _______________________ CG-SG 50.14

4. What course of discipline produces the best results? (195:0)

  CG-SG 51.1

5. In what do parents most generally fail? (195:2)

  CG-SG 51.2

6. In addition to book knowledge, what are children to learn in their first fifteen years? (195:4)

  CG-SG 51.3

7. By what means can a mother point her child to his Creator? (197:1)

  CG-SG 51.4

8. Though children may err, which ones will not go far astray? (198:1)

  CG-SG 51.5

9. Complete: “It is . . . by a _______________________ acts that habits are established and character _______________________.” (199:2) CG-SG 51.6

10. In what years is character generally formed? (199:3)

  CG-SG 51.7

11. What draws deep lines upon the tender child mind? (199:4)

  CG-SG 52.1

12. To perfect Christian graces, what kind of efforts are required? (200:2)

  CG-SG 52.2

13. How may parents and teachers help to establish wrong habits in children? (201:3)

  CG-SG 52.3

14. What do cute little pranks become as children grow older? (202:1)

  CG-SG 52.4

15. What power should be acquired while we are young? (202:5) CG-SG 52.5

16. Complete: “In childhood Jesus did the works of an _______________________ child.” (204:4) CG-SG 52.6

17. How should we regard the feelings of other members of the family? (205:1)

  CG-SG 52.7

18. What must be cultivated and impressed on the mind of the child? (205:3)

  CG-SG 52.8

19. Complete: “That restraint which must be kept upon one would _______________________ out the life of another.” (205:4) CG-SG 53.1

20. Complete: Happiness “follows only in the wake of _______________________.” (206:2) CG-SG 53.2

21. Complete: “You can train the _______________________ your children much more than you think.” (208:2) CG-SG 53.3

22. Complete: “The will is the power of, _______________________, or choice.” (209:2) CG-SG 53.4

23. What power (with God’s help) lies within each child? (209:3)

  CG-SG 53.5

24. How are we to fashion and mold the will of the child? (210:1)

  CG-SG 53.6

25. Complete: “The will should be guided and _______________________, but not _______________________ or _______________________.” (210:4) CG-SG 53.7

26. What should we never do to children? (210:5)

  CG-SG 53.8

27. Children should be taught to move from what two sources? (211:0)

  CG-SG 53.9

28. Into what should children not be forced? (212:1)

  CG-SG 53.10

29. What great mistake may parents blindly make? (213:1)

  CG-SG 54.1

30. Complete: “Be careful that you are not _______________________ to your children.” (216:2) CG-SG 54.2

31. What children are in an especially dangerous condition? (218:1, 2)

  CG-SG 54.3

32. How will children learn gentleness? (218:4)

  CG-SG 54.4

33. What must not escape our lips? (219:1)

  CG-SG 54.5

34. What three things have a direct bearing on our children’s future? (219:4, 220:0) _______________________, _______________________, and _______________________ of parents. CG-SG 54.6

C. Rate yourself as an example to your children: Excellent___ Good___ Poor___ Bad___ CG-SG 54.7

1. I hope my children copy me in

CG-SG 54.8

2. I hope my children do not copy me in

CG-SG 54.9

D. Discuss with others: CG-SG 55.1

1. Discuss character formation in life’s first seven years.

CG-SG 55.2

2. Why then must discipline be developed in the first three years?


CG-SG 55.3

3. Discuss: Sow good seed before the devil sows tares.

CG-SG 55.4

4. Contrast the child training of Napoleon, Hume, Voltaire, Samuel, Joseph.

CG-SG 55.5

5. Discuss habit formation—time for, and means of.

CG-SG 55.6

6. Why should parents educate their own discriminating powers in child training?


CG-SG 55.7

7. Discuss the human will—its development and control.

CG-SG 55.8

8. Can we afford to have disciplinary crises in the home training?


CG-SG 55.9

9. Why should parents try to stay young in mind and heart?


CG-SG 55.10

10. Discuss the importance of self-control in both parent and child. CG-SG 55.11

11. Discuss the tone of the voice in creating home atmosphere. CG-SG 55.12

12. To what extent do formed habits carry over into the next life?


CG-SG 55.13

E. Think on these things: CG-SG 55.14

1. What shall it profit me if I gain a good position and neglect my child during his infancy?

CG-SG 55.15

2. Should I sacrifice my child to gain an education for myself?

CG-SG 55.16

3. Mary could have used more money to make Baby Jesus comfortable, but she gave Him her time and companionship.

CG-SG 55.17

4. Am I stimulating the weak traits in my child and repressing the wrong to give my child a healthy mind?


CG-SG 55.18

5. How do I handle a stubborn child?

CG-SG 56.1

6. What does my child copy from me?

CG-SG 56.2

F. Name one desirable habit I have acquired since I became an adult.

CG-SG 56.3

INDIVIDUAL RATING SHEET CG-SG 56.4

______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter CG-SG 56.5