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HOMESCHOOLING BEGINS WITH HOME
Reading to Children

Reading to children is included in this series of Christian Homeschooling Articles which addresses the following themes:

  1. Relationship
  2. Stewardship
  3. Scholarship
  4. Easy Recordkeeping

Reading to children provides an environment rich in opportunities for you, Mom, to

  • build relationships with and among your children and

  • learn to discern the Voice of the Lord for your particular circumstances.

As you renew your mind about what a true education is, you will discover the many benefits of implementing a “reading to children” routine:

  • Ease your homeschooling burden by acquiring knowledge together with your children.

  • Stretch your budget by taking your children to places that your finances can’t afford while reading about far-away places.

  • Stimulate imaginations and thinking skills through entering time periods of by-gone eras and identifying timeless principles.

  • Discern worldview and/or Godly character (or lack thereof) in the subjects or people about whom you are reading. You will learn to develop your hearkening skills as you read and apply what God is teaching your children—and you!—during other times of the day and week to your “reading with children” times.

Personal Testimony

When my oldest child was a preschooler, we enjoyed reading together so much that it became a mainstay of homeschooling. We branched off into play-acting many stories as well as “cooking through the countries of the continents.”

She is now in college and tells me that these reading times are one of her most cherished memories as she was growing up.

She still joins us in the evenings as we act out Bible stories during our family sharing times and often pre-reads books for me to advise me if they are worth reading to her siblings.

Family reading time has been the backbone of our homeschooling lives since 1992, and over the years it has grown into such an in-depth time of sharing and caring that I look forward to it each day with anticipation of what the Lord will do. Our family reads about two to three hours in the afternoons and usually an hour before bed.

This series of Reading to Children articles
touches upon your growth, Mom,
through establishing and continuing:

Other articles include:

Throughout all the ups and downs of parenting and homeschooling, reading to children can become one of the most peaceful and productive times of relationship building if you start early and keep family reading time as a priority in your home.

Your children will thank you for it as they mature, and you will find that you learn just as much as—if not more than—they do… naturally without a heavy burden.

Lord, build up each member of this precious woman’s home
and Your Body, the Church.
May she press on in the fear of the Lord
and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit
as You lift the burdens often associated with homeschooling
because she willingly embraces simple routines naturally.

Love the Lord your God
With all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
These commandments that I gave you today
Are to be upon your hearts.
Impress them on your children.
Talk about them when you sit at home…
~Deuteronomy 6:5-7a

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