Family Worship

An e-book link about Family Worship, written by Joel Beeke

http://storage.cloversites.com/tacc/documents/family-worship-guidebook.pdf

"Cost Analysis" Parents to Disciple Your Children

I first saw these Pluses and Minuses from a Facebook page, then I traced back to the original post from a blog. Here is the analysis. I will try to find time to translate them into Chinese and post here.

The Centrality of the Home

家庭的中央

最近在網上聽了Voddie Baucham 牧師在2006年美南浸信會年會中對超過1000位牧者的一篇有關於家庭與教養孩子的信息（名為 The Centrality of the Home），深受感動。他不但提到了家庭在教養孩子成為敬虔下一代的角色，同時也對現今大多數教會在孩子屬靈教育中所扮演的角色提出深入檢討。

Skills Taught in a Classical Education

The following is a simple scope and sequence of the skills taught in a classical education given by Leigh Bortins.

Infant to 4 years of age should

• be trained to obey their parents
  
• memorize songs and stories
  
• learn to be kind

4 to 8 years of age should

• be trained to clean a house
  
• be taught to read phonetically
  
• develop the daily habit of studying math

9 to 12 years of age should

• be trained to manage a household
  
• be trained to memorize lots of facts
  
• be taught spelling and grammar rules of languages
  
• be taught to write well constructed sentences
  
• be taught to write well constructed paragraphs

13 to 14 years of age should

• be trained in vocational skills
  
• be taught to write well constructed paragraphs
  
• be taught to write well constructed essays
  
• be taught to defend ideas
  
• be taught public speaking
  
• be taught formal logic
  
• be taught research skills

15 to 18 years of age should

• be taught leadership skills
  
• be taught to write comparative analysis of ideas
  
• be taught to challenge ideas

Source: ECHO IN CELEBRATION: A Call to Home-Centered Education by Leigh Bortins

31 Biblical Virtues to Pray for Your Children

為您的孩子禱告31個聖經中的美德
by Bob Hostetler

I came across this prayer list on the internet and have been using this list in my daily prayer for my children. The original article is available online here, if you’d like to read the full text. I’ve only included the prayer list with Chinese translation here. I believe the Bible translation used is “NIV” in the original text, and I use Chinese Union Version (CUV) for most of the translation. You may also download a colorful calendar in PDF format for this prayer list.

我在網路上無意間看到了這一個為孩子禱告三十一項聖經美德的清單，我也開始將這份清單的內容加入每天為孩子的禱告中。這份清單的原文可以透過這個連結瀏覽，我在這裡只列出了清單的內容，原文中的聖經經節似乎是來自新國際版的聖經，我也配合中文和合本的內容加入中文翻譯，希望能夠提供華人基督徒父母們為孩子禱告的參考。同時也可下載英文版本的彩色禱告月曆（PDF 格式）。

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Memorizing Bible Verses in my Family

聖經經節背誦在我家 （中文）

I was asked by a mother from my former church in Virginia (CCCVA) to share about how I implement the memorization of “Fighter Verses” at home. I want to put my sharing here so anyone who is interested could learn from each other. In fact, you may find out there is no secret and every family might have different ways to effectively implement their spiritual activities with their children at home. If my sharing could be helpful to any of you who are interested, it's all God's grace and His glory.

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Fighter Verses of the Week

The Fighter Verse of the Week is a 5-year church-wide weekly Bible memory program held at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN. The details of the program and all the verses selected into the program could be found or downloaded here.

I have started using the verses provided by the program and added the Chinese United Version of the same verse to let my family memorize it each week since late month. All the English (ESV) and Chinese (CUV) verses I have compiled could be found here.

「每周戰士經節」是美國明尼亞波利市伯利恆浸信會所施行的一個全教會五年聖經背誦計畫，我自上個月起將這裡面每週的經節（與該教會同進度）再加上和合本的翻譯在家中與孩子每天一同背誦。感謝神的恩典，實行效果非常良好。

在這裡可以看到中英對照的經節。

Homeschooling the Rebel - 在家教育叛逆的孩子

by Deborah Wuehler

A good article about teaching your rebellion children in a biblical way.

這是一篇按照聖經原則來教導叛逆孩子的文章。

學校在我家(School at My Home)

「學校在我家」是 神賜予父母的恩典與責任

我們的孩子在家裡上學，沒有去一般的學校，從他們兩、三歲開始，就經常有人問「什麼時候把孩子送到學校去？」到了孩子學齡階段，人們的問題就多半圍繞在我們做父母的專業技術上：「你是學教育的嗎？」「你是怎麼教所有的科目呢？」「孩子的社交活動怎麼辦？」「自然科學實驗怎麼教？」「他們的體育活動呢？」「每天上課幾小時？」等等。

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Sermons About Parenting from John Piper

John Piper 牧師有關教養孩子的講道集 （mp3）

Raising Children Who Hope in the Triumph of God

教養兒女使其將希望寄託在神的得勝上（中文翻譯連結請見文末）

"The most important school a child should ever attend is the home. The most influential theological teachers he should ever have are Mom and Dad. And the unifying theme in the curriculum of this school is God—who is the beginning and the goal of all education. The family is a school for instruction, a boot camp for training young soldiers of Christ, a fortress for protection, a hospital for healing, and a launching pad for missionary zeal."

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如何為你的孩子禱告

我們雖不能成為完美的父母，但是可以成為禱告的父母。

• 網上閱讀（或下載）簡體中文版 - 如何為你的孩子禱告


• 網上購買英文版 - The Power Of A Praying Parent

PEERS Test

The PEERS test, developed by Dan Smithwick of the Nehemiah Institute, measures the Bible's influence on a person's perceptions of the world in five areas: Politics(P), Education(E), Economics(E), Religion(R) and Social Issues(S). The complete test consists of 70 questions and a mini version with 20 questions is available on line.

Click here to take the mini PEERS test

The results of the PEERS test taken by Christian students attending public schools and Christian students in typical Christian schools from 1988 to 2000 are available in the chart below. The chart shows the downward trend in Christian worldview scores for Christian students in both school systems. However, the good news is that Christian students who have received home school or classical Christian, or Principle Approach training are scoring at consistently higher levels.

Click here to view the chart online

Interpretation of the PEERS test score:

Biblical Theism worldview- 70 - 100
Moderate Christian worldview- 30-69
Secular Humanist worldview- 0-29
Socialist worldview- less than 0

Below are two articles with different views about choosing schools to educate our children,

• Education Our Children
• Nine Reasons for not Using Public Schools

Family Devotion

"How to lead a family devotion?" is a good article for all dads who want, but don't know how to start a family devotion time on a daily basis. There are more interesting short readings for Christian men in the "Man in the Mirror" site.

Prayers for Your Family (in Chinese)

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Character Training is So Important

For parents who like to character training their children in a godly way, here is an interesting article written by a homeschooling mom. Many character training books and resources are reviewed in this article. Some of the materials could be used for children's Sunday School too.

You may also find this article from the author's website.

Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 2005

Homeschool.com asked their 7,000 product testers which web sites they found the most useful, both for homeschooling and for after-school help. From a statistician's point of view, 7,000 sample size is large enough to provide a good assessment of these web sites even though it's not a random sample. Their top 100 picks are now listed here.

Probably not many people know that this week (2/13 - 2/19) is Random Acts of Kindness Week, there is a great resource with stuff to print, activities and more in RAoK web site. All to inspire you and your children to perform random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Bless Your Children Every Day

by Dr. Mary Ruth Swope

This is a book which "shows you how to activate God’s blessings in the lives of your children and grandchildren by proclaiming verbal blessings over them. A must read for every mother and grandmother!" (from BCCN).

Now you may read or download the book in Simplified Chinese.

You may also purchase the book in English or in Traditional Chinese.

「蒙福的兒女」是一本幫助您天天藉著禱告給您孩子祝福的書。在此分享給願孩子蒙福的父母 ...

「簡體中文版」在線閱讀、下載

「繁體中文版」在線購買

「英文原版」在線購買

The 21 Rules Of This House

家規二十一條
by Gregg Harris
Chinese Translation by Chinese Christians' Home Education Association

In this house ...

1. We obey God.
我們順服主耶穌基督

2. We love, honor and pray for one another.
我們彼此相愛、彼此尊重、彼此代禱


3. We tell the truth.
我們說實話

4. We consider one another's interests ahead of our own.
我們考慮別人的利益，更甚於自己的利益

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Things I Learned from My Mother

As a homeschool father, I did not know September is the National Homeschool Month until I received an e-letter from FCPL (Fairfax County Public Library). Do you know that there are approximately 2,500 homeschool students in the Fairfax county? This number has increased by about 40% in recent two years. To celebrate the National Homeschool Month, I'm going to share with all of you a humorous posting I read from a homeschool forum sponsored by Sonlight Curriculum.

Things I Learned from My Mother

I OWE MY MOTHER

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

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