HOMESCHOOLING BEGINS WITH HOME
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- Connect with them—heart to heart—as you live a genuine Christian life of humility before them, free from images, so that they will be content to be with you and to receive from you as they mature.
- Respond to the Holy Spirit’s promptings to do only a few things—rather than being overly involved in superfluous activity—as you enjoy real life together.
- Spend quantity time with them at home so you can learn to communicate authentically with each other in natural ways as you practice grace-based discipleship.
- Impart the truth that has changed you to each of your children.
- Develop what God has already provided in your particular circumstances and home.
- Explore life based on your home’s value system and standards.
- Upgrade the quality of the things you are currently doing in life.
- Read the Bible, live within Biblical principles, and pray that your children will develop devotion to the Lord.
Why? So you can trust their behavior.
Train them to…
- Yield rights. As they both give up their ways…
- they can talk about the issues rather than fight about them.
- the older needs to be encouraged to listen to the younger’s ideas.
- teach them that it doesn’t matter who is right or wrong; it matters how you communicate through an issue.
- Draw each other in relationship through their yielded hearts.
- Relate properly with each other.
- Deal with competition and jealousy.
- Begin resisting sin so they do not sin against each other.
train them to submit
(come under another to release them to love)
to you and to each other.
When training them, remember to…
- Treat them with respect.
- Train them where they are, with vision for where you want them to be one day.
- Deal with their grumblings (not their work).
- Evaluate their tendencies (Do they praise or grumble? Do they blame or forgive?).
- Validate the character progress they are making.
- Yield to your children but be wise. Do not allow resentment against you to accumulate in their hearts.
- Avoid…
- a dual value system (one for yourself and one for your children).
- condemnation (heaping burdens upon them that they can’t bear).
- making your children grumble through something.
- pigeon-holing them.
- finding your own identity in your children; i.e., living vicariously through them.
- Model your love of learning as you discover the world around you and read about past history and cultures so your children will also love to discover and learn throughout their lives. Your passion for learning will motivate your children to love learning as well.
- Educate yourself.
- Learn new subject matter with your children rather than teach at them.
- Focus on developing skills that will serve them as they mature.
- Determine academics’ proper place for this season of your children’s lives and your own.
- Come alongside your children as they develop their strong areas and passions first. Through that process, they will develop the courage to tackle weak areas.
you begin to lay the sure foundation upon which they can build.
Laying a sure foundation begins with Christ living through you, which is why homeschooling is as much a tool for your growth |
has chosen to relate to her particular children
through homeschooling.
As she continues in the fear of the Lord
and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit,
may You become her sure foundation
so she can impart Your truth to her children—
Truth upon which they can build.
(I Corinthians 3:11)
a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge;
the fear of the Lord is the
key to this treasure.
~Isaiah 33:6
that addresses each of these topics in depth. If you have any questions or comments about any of the topics in this article, please contact me so I can include them in the ebook. I enjoy processing with women who are moving forward in relationship with the Lord and look forward to getting to know you. |
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