I want to spend time with my kids. I want to show them who they are and what they can be. I want to help train them in the way that they should go. I ultimately want them to serve God and hold themselves to high standards. Is it always easy? No, no, and no. There are days that I'm tired and cranky. I do yell at the kids. I'm a real person. I want my kids to know that I'm not perfect, but that I'm trying. I want them to learn how to deal with difficulties in life with me. I want them to be around others who are committed to them for years not just a semester or school year. We can focus on our family relationships. My kids aren't perfect, in fact, most of the bad habits they have learned they probably learned from me or my husband. We will all face sin, but I want to face sin with my girls and not find out about it later on.
There are days that I want to give up. Wouldn't it just be easier to send them to public school? Sure, but what would we lose? Raising our children well is holy and something that God wants all of us to do. He has entrusted these precious gifts to us. I want to encourage others to do this as well. We can't let modern educational standards rob us or our children of the ability to hide God's word in our hearts. There are things that I want them to learn from me in truth, not the way some government official decided it should be taught.
Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
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