Since Hubby isn't working right now I am emboldened to ask my hubby if he can help out with specific things in the schooling of our son. You see, before his work took a lot out of him, kept him really busy and he helped when he could, but asking him to actively do something so that I wouldn't have to try to squeeze it in, just wasn't something I could do. But right now, while he's between jobs, he does have the time AND the energy.
So with some of that energy: Research
One of the fun things that we thoroughly enjoyed doing last year was studying one country every two to three weeks. The lad's schedule is a bit busier this year so that study has fallen to the wayside. The lad and I were talking the other day about how we miss that study and wondering how we can fit it in again. We had a brain spark... could Dad help?
And so Dad helps. :) He has the list of the countries we finished, so in a couple of weeks we'll be eating a meal and learning the culture of another country and hopefully inviting someone to join in with us. (as that was always part of the fun having friends come and help us make it and learn with us).
So with some of that energy: Guidance
Dad is also becoming more actively involved in "Can you help me with this math problem?" and in intervening when the lad wants to call it quits early or doesn't want to do anything.
So with some of that energy: Field Trip Support
Today he was an active participant at field trip to Boston Pizza today... with no push to hurry back so he could get to work again, no computer or writing tablet or needing to stop in to say hi to anyone along the way.
I have to admit...it's a change I'm needing to adjust to.. but it's a GREAT change that I am learning to relish as long as it lasts. :)
What does Dad do in your homeschool that you simply relish?
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Every three weeks or so I will be working through Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles. I hope you will join me. You can find the rest of the series here.
This second chapter is entitled Calling.
This chapter starts with this statement "Nothing is more important in your life than being one of God's tools to form a human soul."
I had to think about that a spell.
That's what Christian parenting is all about. Being used of God in the formation of a new human soul that follows after him.
In this chapter he spoke to the issues of parents not actually doing the job of parenting because their work gets in the way. They sent their young off to school or to day care or to whatever because they are unwilling or perhaps not aware of the need to be around for their children. This work can be a paying job or a ministry focus.
Gods' call to leaders is this "lead your family well".
We are asked to look to our lives and see what calls us away from this duty to parent our children well.
Our primary purpose is to instill God-consciousness and God-submission in our children. To make them aware of who God is, and he has a calling for each of us. Rules for us to live by.
I found this statement interesting
"Children who don't acknowledge God will act as if they are God and will resist the help and rescue that God has provide for them through their parents." (p 31)
I have seen this with my lad. The more aware he becomes of God and who he is, the more he is willing to accede that maybe we, his parents, have something of value to add to the discussion. Things to make him think and ponder upon. It's part of our job you know? To say "child of mine...this is God. This God of ours is a God filled with grace and wonder and might". To show him/her where you catch glimpses of God.
Most recently for us this has taken place with our study on Otters. God gave them a little flap that goes over their nose, and another in their inner ear that automatically work when they go diving. Not only that, he's given sea otters a patch of loose skin under their armpit so they can carry a useful rock when they going hunting. Isn't that simply amazing how God did this for a critter?
Today
we are reading from Ezekiel 40:16-23. Last time about how God measures in complete numbers. So partial information here: East Gate to Outer Court. You can read more in my Ezekiel Studies here and here.
The Lord continues to show Ezekiel what the temple city would look like. First he takes him through the outer court.
17 Then he brought me into the outer court. And behold, there were chambers and a pavement, all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement. 18 And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. This was the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east side and on the north side.
And then through the North Gate.
20 As for the gate that faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth. 21 Its side rooms, three on either side, and its jambs and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 22 And its windows, its vestibule, and its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate that faced toward the east. And by seven steps people would go up to it, and find its vestibule before them. 23 And opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.
I have to wonder...what is the point of all this measuring? The temple had been built already. Why is seeing this so important?
I'm getting curious...
Do you have insight reader? What do you think is the point of seeing the building and knowing all the measurements of it.
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