One of the biggest mistakes a home educator can make is to believe that home education converts our children. This line of thought leads to panic parenting – panic that all is lost if we do not use exactly the right curriculum, panic if we miss family devotions twice in row, panic if our children
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I think that home education is an all or nothing activity. We are either 100% in or we are out. There is not much room for the 50/50. I have been reflecting on several conversations I have had with families who were tentatively entering into home education with a view to ‘try it for a
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We are raising our children in Babylon. The UK in 2022 is not David’s kingdom, Solomon’s Kingdom or even Rehoboam’s Divided Kingdom. Believers are living in exile and if we sit back and relax, the world will teach our children that marriage is between two people of any gender and endures until somebody wants out,
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There is nothing wishy-washy about Christian Home Education. I think we can all be guilty of stereotyping a group of people who go against the norm in any area of life. One of the stereotypes of Christian home educators that I would like to challenge is the one that says that all we do is
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I wonder how often people assume that Christian home educators are teaching a host of neutral facts in a hiding place (our homes). After all, a believer and an unbeliever can memorise times tables, identify Orion, dig for fossils, or dissect sunflowers. The difference (goes the argument) is that home educators are fearful of the
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If the phrase ‘family worship’ sounds odd, then this may be because whilst the church practiced family worship for 2000 years, ours is the generation to have departed from the discipline. Family worship is simply the gathering of the family on a regular, preferably daily basis to worship God. My husband and I have always
Kicking Off Our Day: The Centrality of Family Worship Read More »
When we started home educating, I had not quite banked on all the added bonuses. I did not realise quite how much fun I would find it, how I would enjoy the close relationships with my children as they get older (I’m not just in it for the cute, baby stage), the extra family time
Deliberately Teaching a Biblical Worldview (It Won’t Happen by Accident) Read More »
Dad: ‘Who made you?’ Three-year old: ‘God made me’ Dad: ‘What else did God make?’ Three-year old: ‘God made all things’ Dad: ‘Why did God make you and all things?’ Three-year old: ‘For his own glory.’ It is morning and we are catechising our kids. I think we have been through our ‘Catechism for Boys’
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Several years ago, I came across rather an aggressive post on Facebook that has stayed with me. It must have been posted by somebody who was in the process of adopting a child and the article, highly sarcastically, answered lots of the most common questions put to adoptive parents from friends and relatives. I realised
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Several weeks back I made an error at the opticians. Approximately forty-five seconds into our appointment he discovered that we are a home educating family. I was taken aback to find that he was fully supportive of our educational choice. We agreed that bright children thrive and struggling children blossom when they are allowed to
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