Symmetric Development 1

Symmetric DevelopmentPrepared by Engin Obucic and Sarah Lobegeiger

In order to act your part in the service of God you must go forth with the advantages of as thorough an intellectual training as possible. You need a vigorous, symmetrical development of the mental capabilities, a graceful, Christian, many-sided development of culture, to be a true worker for God. You need your taste and your imagination chastened and refined and all your aspirations made pure by habitual self-control.

You need to move from high, elevated motives. Gather all the efficiency you can, making the most of your opportunities for the education and training of the character to fill any position which the Lord may assign you. You need so much a balance wheel in judicious counsel. Do not despise advice.

Ellen White

Symmetric Development

Family Goal

Family

Marriage

Employment

University

Employment

High School

Primary School

Kindergarten

Kindergarten

• Healthy family and food

• Balance between school and play

• Playing with shapes

• Learning about God via design of nature

• Learning a foreign language

Healthy Food

• Establish healthy metabolism

• Low GI

• Limit Sugar

• Good Breakfasts

• Appropriate Portions

• Variety

• Don’t use food as a reward

Primary School

• Healthy family and food

• Balance between school and play

• Learning about God via design of nature

• IQ exercises for children

• Learning two foreign languages

Consultation!

Those who obtain a knowledge of God's will, and practice the teaching of his word, will be found faithful in whatever position of trust they may be placed.

Consider this, parents, and place your children where they will be educated in the principles of truth, where every effort will be made to help them to maintain their consecration, if converted, or if unconverted, to influence them to become the children of God, and thus fit them to go forth to win others to the truth.

Ellen White

High School

• Healthy family and food

• Balance between school and personal interests

• Ethical education

• IQ and cognitive tests

• Learning two foreign languages

• Financial Education

Consultation!

Family membersSuccessful friends

Successful professionals

University

• Healthy family and food

• Character building

• Balance between Uni and personal interests

• Structured career planning

• IQ/cognitive tests

• Two foreign languages

• Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

It is not your feelings, your emotions, that make you a child of God, but the doing of God's will. A life of usefulness is before you if your will becomes God's will. Then you may stand in your God-given manhood, an example of good works.

Ellen White

Consultation

Family membersSuccessful friends

Successful professionals

Employment

• Healthy family and diet

• Long-term planning

• Financial education

• Financial stability

• Structured career

A resolute purpose, persistent industry, and careful economy of time will enable men to acquire knowledge and mental discipline which will qualify them for almost any position of influence and usefulness.

Ellen White

Consultation

Marriage

• Healthy family and diet

• His/Her Character

• Finances

Family

• Healthy family and diet

• Family theme

• Family character

God designs that the families of earth shall be a symbol of the family in heaven. Christian homes, established and conducted in accordance with God's plan, are among His most effective agencies for the formation of Christian character and for the advancement of His work.

“But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord” Joshua 24:15

Symmetric Development