Comments on: Guest Post: Biblical Foundations for Child Education – Part 2

By: emily

emily — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:19:53 +0000

we recently read “family driven faith” too! Its unbelievable! Great book

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:16:28 +0000

Also, I found a book at the grocery store today called 100 heroes, 100 songs and it is great for a preschooler’s devotional time. Each Bible story has a song on CD to go with it.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:43:59 +0000

i should have added one caveat about Big Truths for Little KIds. There is a small section that focuses on infant baptism and while I do not feel that infant baptism is the model presented in scripture, I still think this book is well worth your money. We rewrote that section’s catechism questions (it took us just a few minutes) and are using it with our son. You could either do the same or skip over that small section.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:40:42 +0000

Shepherding a Child’s Heart really shaped our parenting from the beginning. I highly recommend Don’t Make me Count to Three as a follow up to Shepherding. Ginger Plowman takes Tripp’s principles and gives readers a little more application.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:03:21 +0000

Thank you so much! I am going to try to get some of these from the library!

By: Elodie

Elodie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:40:01 +0000

These 2 posts are very interesting, thank you so much for sharing all your great resources with us. We have some nice books for our 4 years old, but what she enjoys most is prayer time, we do that each night after dinner, she asks for it, and we use our bible for that. I think it is important to teach our children to love the Bible, and make the difference between the Bible and other books. Songs and hymns are also great for kids, and they memorize them so quick!
I do think, as in any aspect of education, that the best way to teach something to a child is by setting the example. If they can see how you love reading the Bible, praying, and worship, they will naturally do the same.
thank you so much for this encouraging post!
blessings

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:26:46 +0000

Thank you for this excellent post! I have a 2 1/2 year old son. We began reading him the Big Picture Story Bible when he was an infant. We have gone through it numerous times. We also purchased the Jesus Storybook Bible last fall before he turned 2. I cried through almost every story as each related the preciousness of Christ. My son has benefitted from both of these resources in addition to several by Carine MacKenzie – My First Book of Questions & Answers (simple catechism), My First Book of Bible Prayers and My First Book of Memory Verses. We recently began Mon – Fri devotions after breakfast using a story from one of the two bible story books followed by material from each of the My First books. What a precious thing to see the gospel seeds beginning to take root in our son’s heart. We pray it produces the fruit of righteousness all the days of his life!

By: Ann Dunagan

Ann Dunagan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:37:17 +0000

Just yesterday, I was in a fervent conversation with an awesome youth pastor, about how godly discipline and training of our kids and youth MUST be the responsibility of the parents (and he totally agreed).

God has designed for the home and the family to be the primary place of spiritual growth and consistent day-by-day discipleship. I believe it’s possible for church, and kid’s ministries, and youth ministries to “add” to our home training (and our kids and teenagers greatly benefited from many ministry opportunities at church and by leading youth Bible studies), but the responsibility to “disciple” is given to the PARENTS!!!

Thanks for a great post, and for all you do to encourage godliness in our homes! Blessings to you!

Ann – author of The Mission-Minded Family

By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:32:30 +0000

I really enjoyed this post! Here are some of our families favorite resources…

-The Bible in Pictures for Toddlers (Ella K. Lindvall) We started this when our daughter was 18 mos and she LOVED it. We did too and it was a great introduction to the Bible. She carried it everywhere and would name all of the people in the pictures by age 2.
-The Read Aloud Bible Stories Series(Ella K. Lindvall-can you tell I LOVE her!). We started these at 2.5 and they are fabulous. A wonderful, developmentally appropriate way to get more in depth with Bible stories. By 3 our daughter started memorizing them and “read” them along. We also use them in Sunday School with our 3 year olds. The Easter Story is a perfect way to introduce the Passion to a little one.
-The New Bible In Pictures for Little Eyes (Taylor). We started this this past year (age 3). Our daughter is very sensitive and Bible stories can get pretty intense so this was a good way to introduce her to that. We can get through several a night. I like this because it covers many of the stories that aren’t in the Read Aloud Series (Samuel, Paul/Silas, etc.).
-I just ordered the Classic Bible Storybook (Taylor) and Everything a Child Should Know about God to start on this spring.
-We LOVE the “Hide Em In Your Heart” music series by Steve Green. Nothing is more precious than hearing your child sing scripture at a young age.
-Teaching resources from Karyn Henley (www.karynhenley.com) She’s got some great developmentally appropriate ideas for young children!

By: Kami

Kami — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:46:47 +0000

Thanks for a wonderful post the last two days. Very helpful and encouraging. Another book that my husband and I are currently reading is Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Tedd Tripp. This book as radically changed how I look at discipline and child rearing. I cannot more highly recommend it!