Homeschool How-Tos Blog

Why do we so desperately eschew commitments?  What is it, exactly, that we are afraid of?  We know full well that it is a commitment of our future self to a course of direction, and that seems insurmountable to the comforts of our immediate self and its increasing lust for self-soothing.  We “handle” our future by refusing to go there—by buttressing ourselves with ways “out” in every direction.

Steps for a young child to learn to read a map of the world.

A spouse who willfully spurns his marital commitment is like a young child trying desperately to cram a square block into a round hole.

Children do not need more time being entertained.  Put the brakes on.  Instead, their valuable discretionary hours can be far better spent learning life-skills, gaining relational prowess, learning a large conceptual alphabet of how the real world works (i.e. an education—about real subjects like physics, chemistry and biology), enlarging entrepreneurial skills, and maturing an ability to know and deeply worship the One who made them and redeemed them.