A friend of mine and I have scoured the earth's best parenting books. We read them together, have special meetings at the library to talk about our inspiriations we have gathered from them, then go our separate ways and proceed to do little, if nothing, that we have learned from all those books. We truly have been looking for that magic potion that would tell us the way to lead our kids away from their character issues. Yet everything we read seemed to be lacking, even though most of what we read was written by Christians.
About two years ago, my husband and I read the book When You Rise Up by R.C. Sproul, Jr. Great book. Not necessarily about parenting tricks, but more about discipling our children. We loved the book when we read it, and this small excerpt stuck in my brain:
What does it take to raise children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? The Bible, and the Holy Spirit to illumine the Bible. I have a Bible. I have several, in fact. And the Bible tells me that it equips me for every good work. It is a good work to raise my children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Therefore, it equips me to raise children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
It stuck in my brain, but meant nothing to me in a PRACTICAL sense. Then about a year and a half later, I was reading a blog, and the writer said, "we base our homeschool on the Bible." I was glad to read that, and at the same time, thought to myself, "What does that LOOK like? What does that MEAN?" We read the Bible to our kids every day. Did that mean that we also based our homeschool on the Bible???? I didn't know, so I started praying about it.
To be continued......
Well, hurry up, please! :-)
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