"In order to help your children understand what is in their hearts, you have to develop your heart-probing skills.
You must learn to help your children express what they are thinking.
You must learn to help your children express how they are feeling.
You must learn how to discern matters of the heart from actions and words.
Drawing
out matter of the heart is no easy task. It takes much practice
to become a skilled heart-prober. Provers 20:5 says, "The
purposes of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding
draws them out."
Our goal in probing the child's heart is to
bring him to the sober assessment of himself as a sinner, to help him
recognize his need for Christ, and to teach him to act, think, and be
motivated as a Christian. It is not that difficult to train our
children to act like Christians. We have really accomplished
something when we have trained them to think like Christians."
~Ginger Plowman
thank you! That is the one thing I really love about homeschooling...the ability to deal more intently with issues of the heart and character. Truly the academics are secondary when the heart is in danger!
and a woman seeking the Lord's Will (daily), a wife (striving to keep the romance alive), a "Smamma" (Step- mother) of one and a homeschooling mom of seven (I was never going to have children), who starts every day over (after messing SOME thing up the day before), knowing God's grace is overflowing (just like my laundry), and so thankful He's blessed me more than I'll ever deserve.
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