Mothers with younger children whose hearts have been warmed towards the idea of home educating their little ones are often plagued by a nagging doubt, ‘I am just not clever enough to teach my children’. After all, the mental image of our three-year-old sitting down to do exams at the age of sixteen is understandably …
‘I’m Just Not Clever Enough to Teach My Children’ Read More »
I think this is an extremely honest objection to the idea of Christian home education. After all, little children are HARD WORK. I do pretty much everything with my children around. Whilst I am busy cleaning one room, seven pairs of hands are busy turning another room into disarray. I cook and resolve arguments simultaneously. …
You have just had a really great conversation with a friend about the benefits of Christian education. They agree with you that there is a much better way to the secular state alternative. There is already a thriving home educating community at your church; there is even a true Christian school a mile up the …
The pens and pencils are out, the Maths book is open, the white board is up. It is Day 1 of Home Education ‘in earnest’. Expectations are high; nerves are jangling. The first morning goes astonishingly well; the first morning goes astonishingly badly. Perhaps it falls somewhere in between. A few months down the line and it …
Home Education, Great Expectations and Those First Wobbly Steps Read More »
I wonder how many of us have come across the idea that children who profess to be Christians should be placed in the state education system in order to test out their faith? On first glance, perhaps there is the appearance of a certain type of logic: we think our child is saved, we want …
God Will Test Our Children (So We Don’t Have To) Read More »
There is a line of thought that says the children of believing parents should be placed in the school system in order to reach out to unbelievers. I am all for evangelism and it is easy to see where this thinking comes from. Government schools are full of unbelieving, desperately lost children and the idea …
Christians: God has Placed Unconverted Children in our Families Read More »
Have you ever had a conversation with a believer about home education whereby they are completely stunned (and disapproving) that we do not have the government regularly checking up on us? I am stunned that they are stunned and things quickly spiral into an awkward silence before we switch to a different subject! Somewhere along …
The Sufficiency of Scripture and the Education Bill Read More »
I think most parents of school children could be forgiven for having a minor/major panic last Monday when they learned at 8 o’clock pm, that school was to be cancelled for the foreseeable future and that twelve hours later they would be sitting down to a day of home education. I don’t think I would …
I love reading the biographies of missionaries and my faith is always bolstered as a result. Last year I thoroughly enjoyed reading the life stories of Elisabeth Elliot, Amy Carmichael and Hudson Taylor (both alone and with my children). This week I am re-reading ‘Amazing Grace’, the biography of William Wilberforce. I am so thankful …
An Encouragement to the Flagging Home Educating Mother Read More »
A few years ago, I discovered the ‘Challies Christian Reading Challenge’. It inspired me to make reading whole books more of a priority, and to my amazement I discovered that, depending on the events of the year, I could comfortably read a minimum of twenty books, and sometimes quite a few more. It is so …
