Description from homeschooloasis.com
The first half of the message addresses the importance of the familys lifestyle as a prime contributor to the parents ability to successfully impart biblical values to their children both by modeling and teaching. The second part addresses more specifically many lifestyle issues regarding the activities in which we choose to engage outside the home that rob us of the opportunity to develop life-purpose. It challenges the homeschool mom to wisely proceed with her homeschool and lifestyle activity choices with the understanding that there is a tomorrow, and what we sow today will reap its fruit in due time. A chart is provided to help you evaluate how time is being spent, and in turn come up with a plan to de-junk superfluous activity to prepare your home environment for quality learning.
My points of impact:
Create a home-centered lifestyle
When we build our own houses based upon our fleshly desires instead of allowing the Holy Spirit to direct, we will attempt to push our children into false maturity ans we ourselves will feel like “wanting out”, because our efforts will have produced selfish, spoiled, and undisciplined children.
Our activities reflect our value system.
If learning for a lifetime is a goal you want for your children, then learning as a lifestyle is not just a nice idea to incorporate into your existing lifestyle. Rather, it is truly a change of lifestyle issue.
Impart values by modeling.
Christian values include the spiritual and character growth of the family and quality of family relationships.
Model by example and teach by word.
Develop and protect the family unit, so we can develop and nurture intimate family relationships, (which matures our children into unselfish marriage partners and parents), and so the family can develop and nurture God-given individual and family purpose.
There is a subtle, yet very strong deception in thinking that in order to provide for our children we must continually be looking outward to what society offers.
The fuller your lifestyle becomes with real life and worthwhile activity, the easier homeschooling becomes.
Lifestyle learning=child training and lifestyle activities
Create a distraction free, unbroken routine.
Prematurely forcing a thing will prolong the mastery of it and produce a burden that will affect the entire family.
Limit group learning activities
to develop family centered values
to develop sibling closeness
to nurture individual creativity
A family who learns to live, learn, and share their very lives together during the children's growing up years will have children that exceed in maturity, direction and purpose even at a young age.