Home is an outcome of divine providence. It is the most basic community of faith that was formed even earlier than church. It is also the earliest emerged place of education. Anyone learns basic behavioral patterns of living and forms his own characte...
Home is an outcome of divine providence. It is the most basic community of faith that was formed even earlier than church. It is also the earliest emerged place of education. Anyone learns basic behavioral patterns of living and forms his own character at a place of meeting, that is, home. Education became provided by educational institutions as society was industrialized and educational functions of home were weakened. Nevertheless, home is still important in forming individual characters.
The most serious problem faced home of the modern times is child education. This also true to Christian homes.
In Christian homes, parents are responsible for child education. It is a command by God. Parents play a role as the proxy of God in educating their children. They should have insights to their children as part of their pledges to God. Child education in Christian homes should be always provided following words and disciplines by Christ. In regard to home education as informal, parents' behaviors, words and thoughts influence children, consciously or unconsciously. Children learn things from their parents than can never be taught elsewhere.
Christian homes established under the pledge of blessing could receive and enjoy God's blessing only when parents at those homes are responsible for educating their children as an outcome of the pledge. Parents of Christian homes are requested to have a Biblical view of their children in nursing and educating them. It is because children are creatures of God. Child education could be provided properly only when it is recognized that children could become new creatures within Christ.
Based on this Biblical view, parents should play roles as educators and preventive and corrective nursers.
Effective ways of child education may include exemplary behaviors by parents themselves, implementation of effective disciplines, use of plays, conversations between parents and their children, establishment of children's self-esteem and family worships with words and prayers.
Home education at Christian homes should be made in a way that the tradition of divine pledge is transmitted by people under the pledge. Everyone is easy to be a parent, but difficult to be a good parent.
Finding that today's many homes including Christian ones are in the risk of collapse and breakdown, this researcher hopes that above all, Christian home would be recovered and could help many other homes in trouble. But the recovery is difficult to be made by only parents of the homes. So the researcher suggests that church should collaborate in recovering Christian homes.