My pastor’s wife said something interesting at Bible study the other day:
We were on the topic of our children’s social behavior. She said that the family relationships are the teaching ground of social relationships. As an example she said that a child should not be allowed to be sweetness and light to people outside while being mean and snippy to those in the home. She said children need to learn how to live correctly at home first before gracing the world.
Gotta get it right at home first.
That pretty sums up the philosophy we are following with homeschooling. We believe that we will form our kids to be smart, productive members of society by training them well at home in all area of life, in the security of those that love them the most. I find it interesting that this is contrary to modern educational and child development ideas. The commonly practiced child education in our culture today is based on the belief that the child learns best in a school setting taught by experts and from time spent with peers and away from the family.
