Choosing Cards for Children

Take a look at all the greeting cards designed with children in mind. Most of them have a cutesy look that adults think children will like. The truth is children prefer designs that are pictures of real things that are interesting to them. We all are created with a natural curiosity and children delight is the world around them in ways that adults have forgotten. All I am saying is that children will generally prefer a photo card of a monkey or a wolf or an airplane or the Washington Monument to a whimsical cartoon type card like the ones available in abundance in the card department.



That said, consider making your own cards for the kids by searching for specific "reality" pictures at a sharing photo site such as Photo Bucket. You can open an account for free, search for monkey, wolf, plane, or monument, then move photos that you like to your album. Then you can have them made into prints mailed to your home. Paste these handpicked photos to blank cards and voila! you have educational and intriquing cards that your children will love.

One thing we have discovered from homeschooling is that learning takes place very naturally and thrives outside of classrooms. Children learn like sponges soak up water. Just surround them with worthy information and you won't have to force them to learn.

Teach Your Children Well

Homeschooling is a misnomer. This term developed because the beginning home learning movement needed to inform the authorities and the doubters that we were teaching our own children. The world’s understanding of teaching and learning includes school. So now as then, an increasing number of families are homeschooling, but their teaching rarely resembles traditional school and for the early grades, home school may look like play and family togetherness. 

When you walk by the way...

Our goal is not to have school at home. It is to live life according to God's commandments. As parents, that should be our number one focus everyday. Learning the Truth and learning about our created world is naturally part of that.

We should not try to have a school in our home. Traditional school is not even biblical. Even so, every day there are hordes of children going away from their parents and families to be taught inside a room by a stranger? So how does God expect children to learn without school?

The answer is exciting to read because it is so simple:

“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words, which I am commanding you today shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in you house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.           Deuteronomy 6: 5-9

So that is God’s foundational commandment for teaching children and also the most important truth that must be a part of all that they learn, to love God and understand the world through His revelation.

After 24 years of teaching our children, I enjoy sharing with other families that teach their own. I invite you to visit my how to homeschool website.