Home and Church School Manual

Duties that educate

“It is essential for parents to find useful employment for their children, which will involve the bearing of responsibilities as their age and strength will permit. The children should be given something to do that will not only keep them busy, but interest them. The active hands and brains must be employed from the earliest years. If parents neglect to turn their children's energies into useful channels, they do them great injury; for Satan is ready to find something to do. Shall not the doing be chosen for them, the parents being the instructors?”—Special Testimonies on Education, 37, 38. PH140 16.2