Family · August 27, 2026 · 2 min read
We Homeschool
We didn't start this to win an argument. We started it because the house is where our kids first learn who God is.
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
My wife and I homeschool our children. I'm not recruiting you. I'm just telling you what we think a household is for.
Deuteronomy 6 doesn't read like a class period. Sitting, walking, lying down, rising. The Word is supposed to hang in the air of the house, not only in a slot on a planner.
Some days we do this well. A lot of days we don't. I can turn a Bible lesson into a lecture nobody asked for. The kids still fight. Math still ends in tears. My wife carries more of the patience than I do, and I know that's grace I didn't deserve.
What they actually watch
Nobody's Instagram version of homeschool is our house. We have unfinished pages, crumbs, a dad who teaches too hot, and a mom who keeps the whole thing from tipping over.
The kids are discipled by what we love in front of them. If I treat Sunday like optional, they notice. If I use the Bible to win, they notice. If confession and forgiveness are normal speech, they notice that too.
I care about their reading and their numbers. I care more that they know how to repent.
Old questions
We still use a catechism. What is the chief end of man? I want that in their bones before the world sells them a dozen other ends.
I'm not trying to raise clever kids who can perform for adults. I would rather they know the Apostles' Creed than the latest method with a workbook and a podcast. Methods change. The Creed has outlived a lot of confident people.
This isn't a bunker
We didn't pull them out of the world because we're scared of it. We wanted room to name the true God in the hours when their loves are being formed. Then we send them. The house isn't a hideout.
If you don't homeschool, Deuteronomy 6 is still yours. The command didn't say "those who file the paperwork." It said parents. Wherever your children sit to learn their letters, they are learning what matters. Make sure the Lord is named at home.
The work is slow. We miss days. God is better at keeping covenant than we are at keeping a schedule, which is the only reason I have any peace about this at all.
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