From my favorite homeschooling book:
You may know discipleship up, down, backward and forward, and you may even be a great discipler and teacher. But one thing is certain--no matter how much you know or are able to do, your children will want to become only as mature as you are willing to become. Jesus taught, "A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher" (Luke 6:40). Your child is not above his teacher (that's you), and will in fact become like you when his education is completed....You are your child's standard for Christian maturity....
...Wholehearted Christian children come from homes led by wholehearted Christian fathers and mothers. We must take the gospel to the nations, but the home will always be God's primary tool for reproducing believers in the world. And it all starts with your heart.
~~~Clay and Sally Clarkson, in Educating the Wholehearted Child: A Handbook for Christian Home Education
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Jul. 14, 2008 - Untitled Comment
BTW, I gave my copy of The Wholehearted Child to a family that was thinking about homeschooling and now I'm wondering if I should have done that :-(. Oh well I can always go to Sally's website :-).
Blessings, Julie