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| Home Atmosphere |  It is said that an education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life. Several elements of a home atmosphere contribute to the education of children.
Education atmosphere is more than white ruffled curtains fluttering in a sunny breeze and red geraniums on the window sill. These cozy things make your home pleasant setting, but they are only the beginning. The most important thing in your child’s education is the life-supporting atmosphere of home working. Atmosphere is one of only a few instruments the educator has at her disposal to inspire the work of thinking in the student and to encourage healthy growth of the whole child.
Ideas
Children imbibe ideas from the "thought environment" we give them. Ideas are food for the mind. A child's mind automatically grows as he considers ideas.
How are we to tell ideas to our children? God has made us spiritual people and ideas have spiritual origin. Therefore, ideas are passed on from person to person - through talk or books written by those who like their subject matter. You can feed regularly ideas through sweeping tales of history, amazing inventions and discoveries in science, lives of great men and women, and stories that radiate the moral life; as well as paintings, plays, Psalms, poems, and symphonies.
Wanted - Homemaker
Our children will take many ideas from the atmosphere we provide in the home. What do we need to make sure that this atmosphere inspires them on to the kinds of things we want them to learn? First, someone loving needs to be home to make it home.
We are living in a career-minded, materialistic world that underrates the role of a mother. But the irreplaceable basis of a home is mother. During World War II, when America was confining Japanese families in camps, a reporter approached to a little Japanese-American girl waiting at a train platform. "How does it feel to be without a home," the reporter asked. "Oh," answered the little girl, "we have a home, we just don't have a house to put it in."
Open Communication
Another important part of the home atmosphere is intimate communication. It is mean the liberty to express opinions in an atmosphere in which discussion is open and far-reaching. It is always an excellent thing to have an opinion of your own, provided you are not bent on sticking to it. We conserve the natural purity of children by listening with a patient sympathetic hear, and we can expect attentive listening from children if we do not scold them.
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