Just because you home school doesn’t mean your child is immune to this influence. Ignoring it won’t make it go away. Chances are, your child will be influenced by this trend at sometime in his life.
When I was growing up, the only people who got tattoos were prisoners and drunks. Now, it’s a market. And that market targets your teen and young adult.
I home schooled my oldest son for his entire academic career. He sat beside me as we studied the entire Bible together. He knows right from wrong. But for some reason, the pull and attraction of getting tattooed was too strong for him to overcome, and he now has a tattoo on his wrist that says, “Carpe Diem.” He also has a huge cross on his arm by his shoulder and his two daughters’ names.
The first time I saw his wrist tattoo we were in Pizza Hut and he had just told me about his wife being pregnant with their first child. I was livid. I didn’t handle it right. I got up and walked out of Pizza Hut. The reason? He and I had been discussing what the Bible has to say about tattoos for weeks. I had told him how much it would break my heart if he got a tattoo.
But it didn’t matter.
I cried for weeks over this tattoo.
Year later, we were sitting at another restaurant and I saw the big tattoo on his upper arm sticking out of his short sleeved shirt. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. His father was sitting next to me, and he just started laughing. We were so incredulously appalled we laughed I guess instead of crying.
Is it wrong to tattoo? I think it is. But only God knows. Yes, I am devastated and hurt that my son chose this route. But it’s done now, and I love my son anyway. That’s one of the surprises about loving our adult children. They have their own free will and will do what they want to do in the end.
God was a perfect father and he had two kids in that garden who rebelled. What makes us think we won’t?
If you are home schooling because you think it’s the cure for a rebellious child, think again. Home school because God tells you to — not because you have something to prove.
And if you homeschool and your child never rebels — then realize that is by the grace of God it is so. And be thankful.
(c) 2008 Karla Akins
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