Myth: 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.
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