When I tell people I’m homeschooling my kids (I often don’t bother telling them we’re unschooling because that requires even more explanation!) they often ask, “So have you started teaching him yet?” or “What are you supposed to be teaching him this year?”
I’m going to start responding with telling them that the primary responsibility of myself as their educator is to teach them about the Lord and His word and will for our lives. Is there anything else more important? Sure, we could send them to school and still teach them that but wouldn’t they catch on much better by seeing it witnessed in our day-to-day life and business proceedings? Scripture doesn’t tell us to teach our kids their multiplication tables. It demands us to teach our children all about Him.
So step 1 for any parent, homeschooler or not, is to fill your children’s hearts with God.
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Amen to that! Teaching our children about God is definitely #1 priority – the bible is very clear about that. Thank you for sharing this!
I found your post on the Teach Me Tuesdays link-up 🙂
Thanks for stopping by. I need to remind myself of this on a regular basis 🙂
Academic things can be achieved later, but loving God needs to be trained earlier. Nice post. Thanks to share
That’s beautiful, I love it. I do not homeschool, though I supplement my son’s public school education, and I, too, feel that biblical instruction is the most important of all and the best way is through example, as you say, living a life full of God 🙂
Absolutely. The scary part is that they learn best by following our example. I don’t know about you but I’m working every day toward being an example worth following!
Yes, that responsibility terrifies me sometimes! He watches everything I do and say and then believes with all his heart that is the right thing. Wow. Yes, I wake up every morning vowing to do better.