I get this transcript via email daily, and while I don't always have time to read all of them, this one was especially noteworthy...and timeless! It was originally posted the year my dd8 was born! I'm so grateful that God is unchanging. Daily Transcript Program Audio--Click here to Listen Online: http://www.hslda.org/docs/hshb/73/hshb7316.asp God’s Teaching Methodology Volume 73, Program 16 3/5/2007 Please note: Today’s program is a rerun that first aired on January 5, 1998. How can Christian parents determine the best educational choice for their children? Join us on Home School Heartbeat as Michael Farris explains that God’s Word is not silent on the issue of education for our children. Michael Farris: It’s interesting to ask, what immediately follows the greatest commandment in the Old Testament? Well, verses 6 and 7 of Deuteronomy 6 read as follows: “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” Immediately following the commandment to love God is the commandment to teach our children. This gives us an important insight on the priority that God places on our duties as parents to impress God’s commands on our children’s hearts. And God doesn’t just issue a generalized command to teach our children. He specifies the instructional methodology he expects us to use. He tells us to teach our children when we sit at home, when we walk along the road, when we lie down, and when we get up. There is a presumption about the nature of the parent-child relationship embedded in this methodology. God expects that parents would spend substantial time with their children during the course of the day. Mom and Dad, can you really send you children off to school for eight hours each day and still obey the intent of this passage? It’s something each parent must decide carefully in light of the precise direction in God’s Word. This is Michael Farris. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Home School Heartbeat" is a production of the Home School Legal Defense Association. All rights reserved. For more information on Home School Heartbeat or the Home School Legal Defense Association please contact us at: Home School Heartbeat • P.O. Box 3000 • Purcellville, Virginia 20134-9000 Phone: (866) 338-8614 • Fax: (540) 338-8609 • Email: heartbeat@hslda.org Web: http://www.homeschoolheartbeat.org © 2006 HSLDA. All rights reserved.
This is a good homeschool philosophy in a nutshell! Basically, we're to interweave faith teaching for our children into getting-up time, meal-time, relaxation, walking in the way (ie, van-time), and bed-time. Good question: How can that be done, when the children are gone most all day?? This is "note-worthy and timeless," as you say! Thanks!
