Christianity - The Core of Home Schooling
Friday, June 30th, 2006By Mimi Rothschild
The core of home school, which is forgotten even in some good, solid Christian families, is Christianity. Just because the curriculum you follow does not introduce God and other Christian beliefs into the syllabus, does not mean you can’t include it in your daily home school routine.
It is a parent’s responsibility to teach Christianity to their children, and it is a duty of all Christians to share their faith with others. The best place to start sharing your faith is in your own home with your children. Home school allots a perfect time to include your faith beliefs during studies. Teaching Christianity during home schooling is part of God’s plan for reestablishing family life in today’s modern world.
Home school parents have understood that it is time to quit immersing ourselves in possessions, double income families and that it is time to invest in our children. It is the chief responsibility of parents to teach their children. Home schooling has quickly become a viable option for families—a way to instruct our children as students and teach them in the ways that we see fit. Christian families, who have less access to Christian-teaching centered schools, find sanctuary in home schooling. They now have the control over what their children are learning and how they are learning it. Now, parents can take the reins and teach curriculum to their children while instilling Christian values that are lacking in the educational system.
Non-Christian families are also touting the logistics of home schooling, claiming that it is a lack of secular education surrounding history, geography, grammar and literature. The fundamental motivation is the necessity of valid Christian instruction.
The United States is quickly becoming a secular democracy, which undermines and flat out ignores the rights of God in our society — one of the most elementary rights of man. Home schooling allows parents to teach Christian faith to their children, steeping them with moral values and a religious base that more mainstream educational institutions lack.
Home schooling recognizes the need for restoring family life through Christianity being taught as well as curriculum. Christian families are realizing the need to include themselves into their children’s lives — immersing themselves in the very fundamental aspects of their children’s lives — school. It is by teaching their children the likes of mathematics and sciences that they find routes towards God. Crevices in the educational breakdown that allow for segues to more Christian outlooks on problems and solutions.