When we delegate the care of our children in the early years, are we countering the training with greater parental interaction?
Are we aware of the spiritual dynamic of them being so intimately acquainted with people of questionable spiritual and character alignment with the mission of our family? Are we resigning ourselves to what we have no choice in?
It should be an agreement of the corporate whole that certain things are self evident. all men are created equal, but I don't want all of these equal men to affect my children in their formative years.
we have a flood of access that our children must be protected from, that must be analyzed.
Attitudes
Ideas
Intellect
Purpose
First, I want to talk about problem areas and what is a good fit and what is a poor fit, with regard to Daycare.
Happy teachers and happy children, not all of the time, but most of the time. If you think that orderliness is more important than content, your choice might be changed by an occasional untidy access that you might find.
I would be more concerned, if my child was crying daily and having fearful dreams at home about coming to Daycare. Why? You have friends there. you like your teacher don't you? You are following the directions and enjoying your time, right? Might be some questions that I would ask. Are you afraid of someone or something there?
On the positive side:if my child is not reading at 3 or 4 and not recognizing their letters and numbers, etc. don't forget that these scholastic achievements of Daycare are a relatively new phenomenon. No one was tested to enter prek in 1965 when I went to Kindergarten.
I wouldn't stress over these kinds of achievements in the early years, but on the other hand, if my child is showing academic prowess early, I would worry that his or her mind is not being challenged. Still, this wouldn't be in comparison to the other children but in comparison to himself.
How do we aim young scholars, in this day and age? Where do we send them to stimulate their budding curiosities? I would consider robotics camp in the summer time and trips to the library to show a three dimensional expression of knowledge,as opposed to setting them free on the Internet, unsupervised. What are you thinking about and what do you want to read? I would flood them with books and reference material about their interest and watch their interest.
My parents did do this. I don't know how I got hold of books about Helen Keller and Hans Christian Anderson. They were concerned about my myopic quests for more and more reading material. It was crazy, how much I loved to read, but if I had been discouraged, by a teacher here or there who was anti reading and learning, I might not have continued. Nobody rebuffed me for writing my 8th grade thesis on Malcolm X. I wasn't ridiculed or emotionally crushed by any teacher. my father was the critic who I felt that I had to prove something to.
I think that is important to give fathers the authority over their children. I think that this is Gods way. How can a man break free of the feminist a gender to disallow fatherly authority from the minds of children? Taking your children's hands and guiding them through the minefields of current thought is most important for the fathered of this generation. Watch the news with your little ones. Talk about current events from your personal perspective and from your biblical perspective. These things ar ether things God will judge you for, when you get to heaven. Are you praying for the nation, in front of your children. Do they know how you think? They will have a hard time finding their own purpose in the world if their father is opaque in his expressions in the family. These are the things that Clarence Day Jr. Found worthy of expression in LWF book. My father hated any challenge on certain subjects and this is where I am like him and this is where I have prayed for God to change my tendency to become more like God. We don't give them anything to try or stretch for if we only show them what we want them to see. They must see redeemed humanity.
