Why teach at home?
Religion must be taught to children at home during the pre-school years, deliberately, carefully, lovingly. The reasons for this are obvious and not new. Parents are the first and most important teachers, have an obligation under God to teach, and so forth. Then why is it that so many who might teach do not; that so much that might be taught is not taught? The answer, in part, seems to be that even when parents recognize their obligation to teach religion in the home from the cradle on, they do not see how unique is their position between the child and God, nor know how to take the best advantage of it. God has not simply assigned parents certain duties in the matter of the religious education of their children. He has made them the key to the religious education of their children. If one were to say the word God for the first time to a small child, it would mean nothing to him. A small child learns about God first in terms of the love and care and good which he receives from his paren
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