toddpedlar
Iron Dramatist
Hi all-
My wife and I have been talking about some practical issues of encouraging personal Bible study in our kids, and we have been working on getting our eight-year-old, who reads very well, to start her mornings with Mommy reading the Word like she does. Our second daughter, who's six and just starting to read, isn't quite where we'd expect her to be reading very much from her Bible (though she can read with reasonable comprehension, though quite slowly). Number three is bright, but at just four (her birthday was Friday) she's not quite ready to tackle the 1599 Geneva. Number four isn't yet two, and while she's precocious, she's not THAT precocious.
Anyway, we're thinking over ways we can be more encouraging of private time in the Word - and wanted to survey our fellow parents of young and young-ish children to find out what you did when you had kids our age. We do regular morning and evening worship, and catechism, but really want to incorporate an expectation that they be reading privately as well as they are able. Like I mentioned, Abby, our oldest, is quite ready for this, and has a NKJV that she reads (though not as regularly as we'd like). Getting her to read alongside her Mom in the morning is probably as sound as we could be, but we'd appreciate other ideas and hearing other folks's experience with their young'uns.
Todd
My wife and I have been talking about some practical issues of encouraging personal Bible study in our kids, and we have been working on getting our eight-year-old, who reads very well, to start her mornings with Mommy reading the Word like she does. Our second daughter, who's six and just starting to read, isn't quite where we'd expect her to be reading very much from her Bible (though she can read with reasonable comprehension, though quite slowly). Number three is bright, but at just four (her birthday was Friday) she's not quite ready to tackle the 1599 Geneva. Number four isn't yet two, and while she's precocious, she's not THAT precocious.
Anyway, we're thinking over ways we can be more encouraging of private time in the Word - and wanted to survey our fellow parents of young and young-ish children to find out what you did when you had kids our age. We do regular morning and evening worship, and catechism, but really want to incorporate an expectation that they be reading privately as well as they are able. Like I mentioned, Abby, our oldest, is quite ready for this, and has a NKJV that she reads (though not as regularly as we'd like). Getting her to read alongside her Mom in the morning is probably as sound as we could be, but we'd appreciate other ideas and hearing other folks's experience with their young'uns.
Todd