Child Guidance -- Study Guide
Section XI
Faulty Discipline
Date ________ CG-SG 63.11
A. Read pages 271-290. CG-SG 63.12
B. Check your knowledge: CG-SG 63.13
1. What is the key to a child’s heart? (271:1)
CG-SG 63.14
2. What often makes prodigal sons? (271:2)
CG-SG 63.15
3. What will indulgence unsettle for time and eternity? (272:4)
CG-SG 63.16
4. For what must parents answer in the judgment? (273:2)
CG-SG 64.1
5. Complete: “Parents should not _______________________ lightly over the sins of their children.” (273:3) CG-SG 64.2
6. When children have not learned to obey, what will they develop? (274:1)
CG-SG 64.3
7. When do we become accessory to a child’s sins? (276:1)
CG-SG 64.4
8. When indulging children, to whom do we give them? (277:2)
CG-SG 64.5
9. When will “fashionable piety” have little value? (278:1)
CG-SG 64.6
10. Complete: “Be what you _______________________ your _______________________ to be.” (278 :2) CG-SG 64.7
11. Complete: Parents should reason from _______________________ to _______________________ with children. (279:2) CG-SG 65.1
12. What are we to give our children courage to do? (279:3) CG-SG 65.2
13. Complete: “Continual _______________________ bewilders, but does not reform.” (281:0) CG-SG 65.3
14. What attitude may a parent’s arbitrary course of action stir up? (282:0)
CG-SG 65.4
15. What three things are parents not authorized to do? (282:4)
(a)
(b)
(c)
CG-SG 65.5
16. What excites impatience in children? (283:1)
CG-SG 65.6
17. How often is a child to gain disciplinary advantage over its mother? (283:3)
CG-SG 65.7
18. Name two things that cause great harm. (283:4)
CG-SG 65.8
19. What kind of parents wreck the happiness of their children? (284:1)
CG-SG 66.1
20. What parental attitude may destroy a child’s confidence? (285:1)
CG-SG 66.2
21. What will parental severity stir up in children? (286:1)
CG-SG 66.3
22. In what manner are we never to speak to our children? (286:3)
CG-SG 66.4
23. Complete: “It is proverbial that grandparents, as a rule, are _______________________ to bring up their _______________________.” (288:1) CG-SG 66.5
24. How often should grandparents or other relatives interfere in family discipline? (288:1)
CG-SG 66.6
25. How many times may impertinence be tolerated in a child? (288:2)
CG-SG 66.7
26. How far apart is it well for related families to live? (289:2)
CG-SG 67.1
27. Why is distance between related families best? (290:1, 2)
CG-SG 67.2
C. Rate yourself as a child trainer: Inspire them____ Confuse them____ Encourage them____ Discourage them____ CG-SG 67.3
1. I encourage my child most by
CG-SG 67.4
2. I discourage my child most by
CG-SG 67.5
D. Discuss with others: CG-SG 67.6
1. What will weld the hearts of parents and children together?
CG-SG 67.7
2. How are prodigal sons made?
CG-SG 67.8
3. Just why is it a sin to indulge children?
CG-SG 67.9
4. Taking the word of a child versus the word of an adult Christian.
CG-SG 67.10
5. Discuss the heavy burden of the spoiled child as he matures.
CG-SG 67.11
6. What are the effects of lax discipline on a child’s religious experience?
CG-SG 67.12
7. What about relaxing discipline as a child reaches the teens?
CG-SG 67.13
8. What about bringing questionable amusements into the home?
CG-SG 68.1
9. Discuss the effects of faultfinding by parents on children. CG-SG 68.2
10. What are the natural reactions to harsh discipline?
CG-SG 68.3
11. Discuss: Asking (requesting) or ordering children to do things.
CG-SG 68.4
12. Discuss: Ridicule and taunting.
CG-SG 68.5
13. What about unnecessary restrictions and denial of reasonable privileges?
CG-SG 68.6
14. Discuss: Grandparents and discipline of children.
CG-SG 68.7
15. How does the ratio of distance and near relatives relate to home happiness?
CG-SG 68.8
E. Think on these things: CG-SG 68.9
1. Do I love my child, or am I indifferent to his need of discipline?
CG-SG 68.10
2. Am I like Eli or Elisha? CG-SG 68.11
3. Do I encourage disobedience in my child by being indecisive?
CG-SG 68.12
4. Am I causing my children to despise religion by my harshness?
CG-SG 68.13
5. Do I refuse my child simple pleasures for fear he will do wrong?
CG-SG 68.14
6. Do relatives interfere with my discipline?
CG-SG 68.15
F. Name one way I have inspired my child today.
CG-SG 68.16
INDIVIDUAL RATING SHEET CG-SG 68.17
______ Husband ______ Wife ______ Son ______ Daughter CG-SG 68.18