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by philipedwards @ 29/05/2007 – 20:55:40

I was just reflecting on Rose's comment about wild Christian Kids.

We also Home School our three boys for various reasons. In the area we live the Home Schooling community is mainly made up of pretty devout Christian families who (I think)have removed their kids from the school 'system' because it is not teaching what they consider good values and is not bible based (this is not the reason we do). Most of these families would consider that the family is the primary provider for their children's education.
BUT!
When it comes to their Children's spiritual upbringing they are totally happy and committed to firring their kids off to get their primary spiritual input from Sunday School or youth group etc. In fact several run 'kids Christian programs' for the rest of the Home Schooling Community. It's like, we will educate our kids at home but in spiritual things we need to get a program. I would have thought It would have been around the other way.
Any way its just a thought and an observation and could be completely wrong. I am biased as I hated Sunday School, Boys Brigade and Youth Group (except for the girls) with a passion as a youngster.
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- Lisia
- http://lilsview.blogspot.com/
- 30/05/2007 @ 08:56:31
I too am a Christian homeschooler whose reasons for homeschooling are different from those my fellow Christian homeschoolers talk about. Learning about Jesus and the Bible and living a Christian life is definitely one of the things I want to do with my children rather than hand over to someone else!

My son attends Boys Brigade because he finds it fun and because I think the leaders and older boys are a lovely bunch of people for my son to have in his life. I remember a Boys Brigade session where one of the leaders was giving a talk and occasionally asking the boys to answer questions about events in the Bible. After my son had been the only child to volunteer answers to a couple of questions, the BB leader made the comment, "Here's a child who listens in Sunday School." I was surprised he would attribute it to that: in fact Josiah knew the answers to those questions because we had often read together at home from a Children's Bible.
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- Rose
- http://www.starrjrfamily.blogspot.com
- 30/05/2007 @ 11:21:33
Yep, how very interesting! I am just so thankful that we can and are able to homeschool our kids. It's the times we spend in prayer and reading and talking about the Bible that are most prescious to me! Good to think about Philip.
~Rose
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- Chad Irving
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- 31/05/2007 @ 02:00:23
Great blog Philip! I totally agree. I never understood why most parents complain about overcrowding in schools, but love to send their kids to the big program at church, and are willing to let others teach their kids about the Bible and Jesus, and often don't even know what actually is being taught. Very weird. It is sad to see parents abdicate their role as their kids spiritual teacher to others, sometimes even strangers.
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- Eric Holcombe
- 01/06/2007 @ 08:19:21
Oddly enough, the homeschooling experience (as parents) led us to begin to evaluate our "church" experience with the same standard, desire to worship together as a family in the organized meetings, cut out the "children's church", evaluate the "programs", and eventually decide it was all a mess. I still am baffled by the droves of Christian homeschoolers and organizations that quote Deut. 6 as the mandate for educating their children, but don't seem to realize it isn't speaking to biology and algebra.
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- Max
- 05/06/2007 @ 19:52:37
No need to farm out primary school kids for Sunday School etc but adolescents may be a different matter. It depends whether or not home schooling and house church is providing enough social interaction for them to mature socially and make that next step into the bigger adult world.
- - Kim
  - 10/06/2007 @ 21:30:16
  Hi Max,
  I agree that often adolescents in particular appreciate the dynamic that a group of similar aged peers can give, but I think we need to evaluate what has become the assumption about healthy, or 'enough socialisation' for children and young people. Just as many have somehow accepted that the core of their childrens' spiritual growth is developed in a church youth group or sunday school, I think that many have accepted the wrong assumption that social maturity is built within the false environments that a classroom, or youth group provide. When and where else in the whole of our lifespan is this environment a reflection of the real world? The best oppertunities for social maturity to grow and develop fully is in real life situations, out in the real community with family, and community involvement and responsibility. Youth groups and bible classes might complement our kids' lives, but the core responsibility for us parents is to provide real life oppertunities for our children to grow spiritually and socially,not leaving these things to develop in the manufactured environments of a bible class, schoolroom or youthgroup.
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