Now, before you dismiss catechizing as an archaic practice or too quickly equate it with a Catholic-only practice, let me say that I have found it a wonderful way to ensure I'm 'covering all the bases' as I attempt to train my children in Biblical doctrine. Someone else likened it to teaching the times tables and I have to say, I believe that is a more than adequate analogy.
We've gotten off track in our home with teaching through the questions more often than we've sailed right through. Even so, it is nice to have a schedule of sorts- a checklist of fundamentals to make sure we've covered as we go; to pick up where we left off.
It was while looking for varied schedules that I came across this blog post:
If you click over there, you'll find a link to catechism themed songs and a print out of questions that you can take your child through.
Around the same time that I came across the post, we were trying to wrap our brains around the most unexpected blessing: we found out we were going to have Riley.
When I read the suggested age on the list of questions, I fell in love with the idea of starting simplified catechizing as early as possible. (Another one of those things I feel bad about not catching on to sooner with The Bigs... thankfully, God is so much bigger than our parenting gaps!)
Since that time, we've found some additional resources and more supporters/discussions about the value of 'catechizing':
Paul Washer
CJ & Kevin Mahaney w/ Curtis Allen
But now, without further delay, Riley answers the first two questions from the revised
CJ & Kevin Mahaney w/ Curtis Allen
But now, without further delay, Riley answers the first two questions from the revised