Select Sunday school with care. May be preferable to take child to opening portion of church service, and to full service on festival days
Bible stories especially of Old Testament history; boyhood of Christ
Stories from lives of religious leaders
Portions of religious allegories, as “Pilgrim’s Progress”
Cultivate tolerance for other sects.
Intellectual Interests. 8 or 9 to 12 Years
Tools of knowledge—reading, writing, spelling, numbers
Repetition and drill; learning by rote
Tests of observation, attention, mental alertness, power of inhibition
Little use for explanations or power of abstract reasoning