How Should We Educate Our Children? The Case for Freedom, Part 1 | Ep. 93

Risen Motherhood

Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Deciding how to educate your child can be overwhelming, but momma, there is freedom—because of the gospel—in our education methods. In this episode, Emily and Laura kickoff our RM month of education with the first of four podcast shows on schooling choices! Deciding how to educate your child reveals a lot of options, opinions, and pressures from both inside and outside of your home. We hope you'll join us over the next month while we talk about private, public, and homeschooling, and how the gospel gives us freedom to choose, in the context of our own situation, for the glory of God.

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Articles, Resources and Related Content:

We have a special place to find our collection of education resources this month! Here you'll find links to all of the interviews, resources and tools we've found helpful, and the RM questionnaire to serve as a springboard of things to think about as you and your family consider the decision of how to educate your child.

Below, you'll find some episode-specific resources:

Deuteronomy 6:4-9: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 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. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."
Proverbs 22:6: "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it."
Ephesians 6:4: "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."
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0:00.0	Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel
0:09.8	like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel
0:14.9	to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So, mama, whether
0:20.9	you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true,
0:25.9	encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us.
0:36.3	Welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I'm Emily here with Laura. Hey guys,
0:41.7	and we are really excited to kick off a four-part series all about education and the gospel,
0:50.3	something that has been on our minds, on our hearts to talk about for a really long time,
0:55.6	and we've been planning this for a long time, and it's finally happening. We're really excited.
0:59.6	Yeah, we are really excited. It feels like we just didn't know how to quite do it justice,
1:04.2	but we're hopeful that through doing this four-part series, we can really run the gamut about
1:08.7	education. And just a quick note is that if you're looking for any of our resources, any of the
1:13.1	interviews, all of that stuff head to RisenMotherhood.com, backslash education, and that's where you're
1:17.8	going to find all of our information that we reference on today's show or any of the future shows.
1:22.4	That is going to be your landing page. We've created just a special spot, so it's really easy
1:26.7	for you to find anything that we mentioned, talk about or do on education. Yes, so again,
1:32.7	this kind of came out of just the reality. Laura and I now have our oldest kiddos minus five and a
1:38.4	half, and Laura's is about to turn five. So over the last couple of years, we've really been
1:44.0	processing education decisions, but it's really on our doorstep now. And we first hand have experienced
1:51.3	just all the different factors that can make this decision really challenging and scary at times.
1:57.6	First of all, there's just a lot of options. I mean, even if you get down into a specific category,
2:03.2	like let's say you're looking at homeschool, well, there's co-ops or there's classical education,
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