Home Education New to Home Education.....Home Education Myths...The Family Cannot Provide Opportunities Necessary... The Family Cannot Provide Opportunities Necessary for Children's Education Again, there is no need to fear or panic; it is not the number of opportunities which leads to success, but the ability to handle one that counts. Our children's lives, like our own, are not directed by man-made opportunities but by the hand of an all-wise God. who declares in Proverbs 3:5-6, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths." God provided the home for children and he will provide for the children therein. There is, therefore, no need to attempt to invent numerous opportunities which can easily lead to confusion and frustration. Providing opportunities is not the goal. Preparing children to choose rightly is our goal. Parents need only teach their children the precepts which will aid them in discerning between a true and a false opportunity. Again the Scripture gives insight, "...that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good" (Isaiah 7:15). Although such is the case, every resource available to the public school is available to the home. When the time comes for a child to pursue a particular field of knowledge, the opportunity to take hold of it is seldom very far away. In addition, educational opportunities are available through the family which the public school can't possibly offer. An immediate example is our daughters heiping their midwife-mother deliver a baby. No public school child ever finds that to be part of the curriculum. Let's put the shoe on the other foot where it belongs. Rather than providing our children with opportunities the public school, in many ways, denies children opportunities. |
