Incorporating a Biblical Worldview into Your Home School
By Mimi Rothschild
Many parents choose to home school their children because of the lack of a biblical worldview in public schools. While having a biblical worldview yourself is a great way to model it and teach it to your children, there are ways that you can incorporate it into your home school curriculum to make an even stronger impact on your children. By incorporating a biblical worldview into your child’s home school curriculum, you will show her how the Bible is not just for Sunday morning, but an important aspect of everyday life.
One of the things you can do to incorporate a more biblical worldview into your home school is to make sure that worship is an activity that is incorporated into everything you do. Make sure everything you do is influenced by God, not just “religious things” you do. Doing well in your schoolwork, for example, can be a worshipful act because it is fully utilizing and giving thanks for the mental power that God gave to your child. You can explore this more fully by looking at the role of God in history, science, math, and literature. God can be present in all these areas of your home school curriculum.
Of course, religious studies are an important component of the home school curriculum. When your child is young, you will most likely focus on stories and simple lessons of the Bible. As your child gets older, growing past some of these stories, you can start teaching her about the philosophical and intellectual underpinnings of God and Christianity. In today’s world, it is important for believers to understand why they believe what they believe and for them to be able to defend those beliefs, on an intellectual and philosophical level, to other people. Home school can help with that. By understanding the intellectual and philosophical side of her Christian beliefs, she will be more prepared to project her own biblical worldview as she gets older.
As a homeschooler, one of your most important tasks is to teach your child to have a biblical worldview. To that end, incorporating God’s role and the belief in God in all the content areas of your home school curriculum encourages a biblical worldview by showing how God impacts everything. Home school not only gives you the opportunity to model a biblical worldview for your child, but also the chance to strengthen it in her.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mimi Rothschild is a homeschooling parent, author, children’s rights advocate, and Founder and C.E.O. of Learning by Grace, Inc. She and her husband of almost 3 decades reside with their 8 children in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rothschild co-founded Learning By Grace, Inc. because “our current system of education has broken its promise…” Learning By Grace, Inc. delivers Internet-based multimedia education to PreK-12 children in the United States and throughout the world.
Rothschild has authored a number of books about online learning published by McGraw Hill and others. Her daily RSS Education News Feed contains feature stories on alternatives in education.
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