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Wee Catechize

We have been doing a version of catechism with the children for the past few years. It started with reading through " Training Hearts, Teaching Minds " and the desire to give our children a solid foundation of biblical truths. Now, b efore 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:   'Cheerios with ...

Wee Catechize

We have been doing a version of catechism with the children for the past few years. It started with reading through " Training Hearts, Teaching Minds " and the desire to give our children a solid foundation of biblical truths. Now, b efore 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:   'Cheerios with ...

Memory Work: The Apostle's Creed

What do you believe? Can you sing it?

BOB Made Me?!

Rye All Ready For Church Awhile back, I happened across this post regarding the old school tradition of catechizing children (big fan of that here at Aletheia!) Cheerios ® with a Side of Catechism If you click over, you'll find a link to songs designed to help teach even the little tykes responses to catechism questions, as well as a printable checklist of catechism questions .  What I liked most about this article & printout, in contrast to the other materials we have used in the past, is the inclusion of tots...  Rye will be 2 in November and we are already beginning to teach her.  She can respond properly, and she has, but lately she has begun to tap into her sense of humor and has learned how to be...um, precocious about various things.  Including Question #1.  (She feels no need to be sassy about "What does the letter A say?" I guess theology has an affect on us all, no?) The child knows she's funny and has already learned to play into that... ( Hea...