| "I love work, I could watch it for hours!" It's one | | | | Its easy to talk about these concepts but it is really |
| thing to demonstrate work to children but it is | | | | hard to instill them into our children. If my children |
| entirely different to effectively teach children about | | | | don't want to work, what can I do? Many mothers |
| work. In our ATI home education program my family | | | | struggle with this predicament. There are no easy |
| and I have been studying the concept that God | | | | answers but there is one thing you can do to |
| gives bread through work. I can honestly say that it | | | | encourage a worker mindset in your family. |
| is not a topic I would have picked out and set for | | | | Throw out your television, turn off your free to air |
| the family myself! We're working on it because it is | | | | radio and download books and audio books and |
| the major concept of Wisdom Booklet 34. | | | | articles that talk about people working. Lamplighter |
| The benefit of following a program of material and | | | | Publishing reprinted a great book I like, "The Boy |
| working off a preset series of topics is that you are | | | | Who Never Lost A Chance". There are many books |
| forced to work on concepts that you do not want | | | | out there. Make your home environment one that |
| to address. I say I didn' t want to address it, but | | | | promotes work and wisdom and has examples of |
| who wants children to grow up thinking that | | | | people benefiting from good character. |
| everything will come to them via "The Secret" or via | | | | There is one thing that many mothers find it hard to |
| the government, or someone else's efforts? | | | | do, but which will eventually pay off in "kitchen free" |
| One of the things we do in our family is to read | | | | days. That one thing is let your children cook in the |
| God's Word each day, and we search for new | | | | kitchen. Your daughters will love it, and so may your |
| meaning from familiar passages. Today's readings | | | | sons. Just be prepared for a long hard haul to get |
| were Psalms 19, 49, 79, 109, and 139 and Proverbs | | | | them to learn how to clean up after themselves. |
| 19. One of the challenges we have for our of our | | | | We started down the track of bread making with |
| daily Bible Time as we call it is to find verses that | | | | our oldest son first, and then 3 of our girls, and now |
| match or are somehow aligned to our home | | | | our next oldest son. They love it. We're still working |
| education program theme. | | | | on the "work creates mess that needs cleaning up" |
| This was quite easy today. I read "Slothfulness | | | | concept. But it is worth it. God provides bread |
| casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer | | | | through work. |
| hunger." Proverbs 19:15. | | | | |