Relationships and peer pressure Perhaps the biggest and most overlooked area that parents must consider is the nature of the relationships between children and those they spend significant time with. One of the benefits of parents having children around them all the time is the opportunity this affords for parents to be involved more closely …
Children are not created equal Public and private schooling makes assumptions about the ability of children to maintain pace with other children. The assumption is that children at a certain age are roughly equally able to perform to a specified statistical standard. Typically the specified standard is based on testing of a group of children …
Educational Content The second issue to examine in content consideration is that of the content taught in schools. Western governments today regard equality and tolerance as critical issues, and certainly no one should advocate the value of human beings more than those who believe man is made in the image of God. However, God is …
Educational Goals One of the prime considerations of education must be the content taught to children. There are a number of areas of concern for Christian parents interested in ensuring quality content in their children’s education. The first is the goal of the educators, and the second is the content of the educators. We will …
The Biblical Mandate What criteria do we use to evaluate our children’s education? Worldview? Education quality? Return on investment? Prestige? Parents evaluate educational choices based on a wide variety of issues. Obedience to scripture is the only core requirement by which Christian parents are required to structure their lives, and the area of education for …
When our first child was ready for school, we put her into a public school. We had reasons. We wanted her to be in the world, learn how the world works and be prepared. We wanted our family to be “light” in the world (for want of a clearer way of putting it) by teaching …
From “Instruments in the redeemers hands” by Paul Tripp, p39-41 (the entire book is assigned reading for this week). In explaining Genesis 1:26-28 Tripp makes the point that there is something unique about God stopping and actually speaking to the two humans he had just created. He hadn’t done this with other creatures; for previous …
Just a quick thought from a reading I did last week for one of my courses. Often the fact that God seeks His own glory is used as an example by unbelievers of God being less than perfectly good because he is self-seeking. However, the concept presented by the word of God is that the Trinity …