Today i started homeschooling the 2 children of the family i stay with – 7yo and 4yo. It is a precious experience, as i love children, and love to see them grow close to Jesus. It is good therapy for me too, to get me away from doing too much computing – ha! Just while typing this the 4yo girl told her brother who wouldn’t let her play with his blocks: “Then i don’t want to be your friend anymore”. It didn’t escape my ears, so i went over to her and asked her what she said. She wouldn’t say, so i said if it was something good, then there was no need to hide it, but if something bad, then Jesus knows all things. I asked if she remembered what we studied this morning – the motto of our whole homeschool: “Do to others what you want them to do to you”. She nodded, and said again what she had said. I asked if she wanted her brother to say this to her. She said “no”, and soon we were on our knees asking forgiveness from the brother and from Jesus too. What a nice experience 🙂
We did worship, exercises, Bible reading in Matthew 7:12, ABC writing, punctuation marks, how to ask questions, walked around the streets with me asking questions about how metal and concrete is made, and how God protects the various fruits we see (papaya and cocnut) from being eaten easily by animals, 5 minutes of addition, typing on the computer, and then the 3 names of big wind storms. It was sad to see that over 400 people are feared dead in Taiwan because of a typhoon.
Lord, please bless the start of this little school, and may we do everything to your glory. Please send your angels and Spirit here to keep a pure atmosphere around these precious little ones, and give me patience and wisdom with dealing with them.