Article June 30, 1917 Issue

Educating Our Children

MOLLIE O. WALDRON

When I became a student of Christian Science, I realized almost from the beginning the necessity of giving a part of each day regularly to the study of the Bible and of our Leader's writings. I also began to help my little daughter study her Sunday school lesson, and to explain to her as well as I could the simpler meanings of the truth taught; but we did not have any regularity about this work.

After a few years had passed by in this way, I awakened to the fact that since systematic work was necessary for my spiritual growth it was just as necessary for hers. It also came to me very clearly that as she had regular hours for her meals, for her music, and for her school lessons, why should she not have a regular time for her study of the Science of life? I had often made the statement to her that Christian Science was the most important thing in the world—then why not impress this fact upon her by requiring her to start the day with this work?

We began by taking fifteen minutes each morning, just before she went to school, for our study period. This gave her time enough to read one section of the lesson, two pages of Science and Health, and a few minutes for mental work in Christian Science. Rarely indeed was anything ever allowed to interfere with this daily work. Each year as my daughter's spiritual understanding has grown, she has increased the time given to her Science work, until now after four years she spends one hour daily with her books,—one half hour before breakfast, and the other before going to sleep at night,—this work being recognized as the most important of her studies.

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