Raising Christian Children
Tara disovered that if you want a lot of discussion on your weblog, talk about child rearing. (You have to register to read her weblog.)
For those of you too lazy to register, she's given me permission to summarize and quote her post. She's teaching her son to read using A Beka Books, but has become frustrated with what she calls “blatantly obvious propagandizing”.
“Truth is truth,” she writes. “I want [my children] to find out for themselves that the Bible should be a treasured possession, that going to church is a good thing. I don’t mind having a hand in the convincing but I don’t want to exclude reason and personal observation.”
I would counter that Truth is accessible only through God's gift of faith. You cannot rationalize your way into it. Either you believe or you don't.
Still, I'm sympathetic. The A Beka Book story that she talked about was very heavy-handed with its message. No subtlety whatsoever. No art or craft, either. I certainly won't be using their books to teach anything to my children. I offer the rest of my comments here as another way of thinking about raising Christian Children
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For those of you too lazy to register, she's given me permission to summarize and quote her post. She's teaching her son to read using A Beka Books, but has become frustrated with what she calls “blatantly obvious propagandizing”.
“Truth is truth,” she writes. “I want [my children] to find out for themselves that the Bible should be a treasured possession, that going to church is a good thing. I don’t mind having a hand in the convincing but I don’t want to exclude reason and personal observation.”
I would counter that Truth is accessible only through God's gift of faith. You cannot rationalize your way into it. Either you believe or you don't.
Still, I'm sympathetic. The A Beka Book story that she talked about was very heavy-handed with its message. No subtlety whatsoever. No art or craft, either. I certainly won't be using their books to teach anything to my children. I offer the rest of my comments here as another way of thinking about raising Christian Children
( Read more... )