My wife homeschooled my daughter. She never went to public school. We always heard that she would have issues socializing. After high school she enrolled in a Christian college in Fl. She will be getting her masters after 6 yrs. My wife and I will be attending her graduation next month.She grew into a lovely Christian woman.And has no issues with socializing. She currently teaches 3 classes of 30 students. College entry level English. God bless.
My daughter is only 7 months old and we plan on having more children, but I have these worries every single day. I will be homeschooling and I feel intimidated by what influences my children will be exposed to. I worry I won't be able to find the balance between freedom to learn and explore and restriction and protection to keep them safe. Thank you so much for having this guest, and I would love more guidance on parenting and implementing Christian values at home, keep it coming!
Have you read Mama Bear Apologetics by Hillary Morgan Ferrer? I highly recommend it. Also anything with Elisa Childers and Natasha Crain are good as well. Not just books but podcasts too.
Research curriculum to see what works best for you and your child. Spending time with them and having them see you follow Christ is the best thing you can do for them. We use Sonlight and she is learning multiple perspectives so she can come to her own conclusions about a variety of things. We read the Bible daily and she has memory verses each week. Equipping them to think is a great way to approach things. Then pray for them and give God your worries. He can handle them.
@@mistimoyer8262 Thank you Misti, this is really thoughtful and true advice. Your daughter is so blessed to have your guidance and your nurturing in a relationship with Christ ❤
Yes!!! I listened to both of Elizabeth's interviews with Mike Winger and Alisa Childers. We are going to start homeschooling as well, Melissa. This curriculum is on our "to buy" list. Can't wait, we so need it!
I started home educating my (then) 8 year old boy at the start of the pandemic. It's been 2 years now and I have another 2 boys of similar ages that I teach with him and they LOVE homeschool! (Christian curriculum) I will be using this critical thinking material with them in the afternoons from now on...we must make sure they know how to THINK clearly so they will follow truth...and more importantly that they can identify truth when they see it 🙏
I’m a speech and language pathologist (was in the schools for 10 years), but have been homeschooling for 8 years now…teaching apologetics has been intentionally a core topic for a over a year now (especially since finishing a certificate of apologetics from Biola- wonderful program!). For this reason, we are genuinely wanting to incorporate your curriculum into our days! Grateful!
I am becoming VERY interested in teaching children. Especially in the categories of critical thinking/biblical truth/Apologetics. This is so inspiring. Thank you!!! 😎💖
But shouldn't we educate them and allow them to be "light"? It seems as Christians, we always pull back from the culture instead of confronting the lies with the truth. I just see the public schools completely collapsing and I don't know how that would be beneficial to society. Christians started schools and I think it's time we take them back.
We started implementing this curriculum in our church here in South Africa and it is AMAZING!!! Thank you soo much for the incredible amount of effort you have put into this! It is soo user friendly and what a blessing for the times we are in, fighting against the unbiblical views that our youth gets bombarded with. We are deeply grateful to you and your ministry Elizabeth. May God bless you!
I’m obsessed with Foundation Worldview. Will be doing their curriculum this summer with my boys 7 and 4. God bless you and this ministry Elizabeth. God bless you Melissa!
elizabeth is such an inspiration to me. when i first watched her video with alisa childers, i was so happy to see someone verbalize things i had been thinking about while working with kids at my church and find solutions to a huge problem in our world today. thank you for interviewing her!
I loved this video and I was super excited when I saw the title of it. I recently found Mama Bear Apologetics and I am reading that book. And I am SO excited you’re starting your homeschooling journey. I homeschool my 8 year old son and I absolutely love it. Some quick tips I’ve learned are: 1. It will be an adjustment when you take them out of public school so be patient and maybe even take a month or two or just exploring a fun topic and slowly add in school work 2. Do not try to recreate public school at home! Homeschooling is so flexible and you’d be surprised how much they learn in only an hour or two a day. No need to do 8 hours of school! 3. You can get open and go curriculum that needs no prep so it makes things easier. We really love The Good and the Beautiful I hope that helps a little. I’m really excited for you. Thank you so much for all your videos. I can’t tell you how much they help our family!
Wow, this is the coolest, most important foundation the kids should get. Thank you so much for creating this teaching platform and thanks to Melissa for doing an interview with Elizabeth - it's been amazing!
Loved this discussion!!❤❤ Although I had heard Elizabeth before on another channel(Mike Winger maybe), I always want more. She has so much to offer as we search for ways to help our children in their walk of faith, especially in these trying times. We have so much to gain as well as we stand firm in our faith. I have never before been more desperate than now, to teach my child God's truth and why we believe, why Jesus is real, Apologetics, the Scriptures, Ctitical Thinking etc. THANK YOU for your work!!👏🏽 God bless you ladies!! ❤🙏
Wow! This is great! I’m going to share this with my girls, who are wanting to teach their kids!! AND even pass it on to our church’s children pastor! Thank you!
I'm so thankful for the resources that are out there now for parents who really want to take seriously the responsibility of discipling their children. My boys are now 17 and 22. My husband and I were (and still are) passionate about our role in discipling them. We really had to cobble together our arsenal of resources when they were younger. But I'm happy to report that both are solid in their faith and my younger son, in particular, loves apologetics. His goal is to become the next William Lane Craig. I'm always happy to refer young parents (particularly young moms) to resources like the one discussed in this video. Keep up the great work!
Great show, great curriculum Elizabeth! I have been homeschooling for 14 years now. I am currently homeschooling 9th and 5th grade while also studying Christian Apologetics and Bibilical Studies through SES Academy & personal study. You can do it (homeschooling), Melissa! Everybody's homeschool looks different and it just takes time to sort out what works for you and your family. Just when I thought that I had really found our groove, highschool rolled around and it was like starting all over, finding out what works best for us again. I have found that some of the apologetics material that I am studying can be used as an elective course for my highschool student. With my younger son, I have enjoyed using Lee Strobel's Case for series and J. Warner Wallace's material for children. The Fallacy Detective and The Thinking Toolbox by Bluedorn, geared towards young kids, also looks worthwhile for critical thinking (I haven't completed these books/workbooks with my kids yet). Love Natasha Crain's material as well as Mama Bear Apologetics! I don't love tackling geometry & early trigonometry ha-ha, but that is part of homeschooling...and there are numerous resources out there to pull from when you feel like you've hit a wall. God Bless! Personally, we use Sonlight Curriculum Full Grade Packages (Science, Math, Language Arts, History, Bible), but like most homeschool parents we change it up a bit for whatever best fits our children's needs. I always tweak the Bible schedule to something suited for both of my kids and include apologetics/worldviews. They don't always enjoy it, but we do it! We can hardly make it through any movies without my oldest breaking down the worldviews/doing a running commentary! A+ Something is getting through!
Just looked over the curricula, I’m impressed! I put it on our “to buy” list for our crew. We’ve been reading the BRAVE book series that has a lot of similarities in the method (video, teaching/reading the book, activities and discussion) with excellent results. Looking forward to exploring this series.
How do I as a grand parent who has 5 out of 6 grand kids attend public school teach them this? 3 grand children ( siblings) have parents that are not saved so their thoughts are of the world , and wouldn't care what the schools teach them , but I am a Christian gramma that is not of the world and against what schools teach them so how do I keep my grand children from wanting what the schools teach instead of what is right?. My grand daughter is in high-school and her brother's are in elementary, ( grade 3rd and 4th) and they are not being raised with the knowledge of God only by what I share with them, so how can I a grandparent teach them this? Help!
I myself is easy to believe what I hear and I asked my dad how to not believe in a lie anywhere, but my dad said to just don't believe it then and do research on it. Like I can do that. When I first hear it I believe it. I trust people too easily. I would love to learn critical thinking.
Hey have you ever done anything about the misconception of the popular teaching that you can bind satan. ? The false teachings of binding and loosing. ?
I don't understand when adults talk about children in this way: as if they are some other species of human, as if they themselves have never been kids! I have turned 31 two days ago but it still feels as if I was a kid just yesterday... I always talk to them as equals, as friends, that's why children like my company, but I don't necessarily like "kids" because they are kids. I don't like when women start changing their voice and start acting differently around kids in this exaggerated way (you know what I mean...) I think it is humiliating towards children.
What if your grandkids' parents are not Christian, but socially conservative? I'm working with my grand kids but my daughter isn’t a believer right now.
I am very hopeful for the silent majority, that as the political pendulum swings back will start to speak a bit more... But even if somehow my generation is how it seems... At least with these kinds of recourses, the next generation should do better. Crazy to think my entire life my peers could be *like they are now* but im hopeful that will change.
Jesus loves you and died on a cross and rose three days later taking our place and paying our debt (for the wages of sin is death) so you can have eternal life and be forgiven of sin if you repent and pick up your cross and follow him daily
I love listening to this.. please pray for my Daughter who is going College to be a third grade teacher… However she is not a Christian and she’s angry at me all the time for being a Christian… She’s always been a church we weren’t there every single Sunday but she was raised in church her dad used to be a sunny school teacher… She went off to college and now she’s totally 100% atheist I don’t know what happened, and her ideas of what children should know it’s such a young age I don’t know where that came from and I’m so afraid… Please pray that God will speak to her heart… I have tried but she just becomes so angry I literally had to leave our family group on Facebook because anytime I put something about God on there , she just really tells me off.. 😩🥲
His method surprises me, when I saw testimonies all over the place I through it was made up stories till I was convinced by my boss and I gave it a try and honestly I don’t regret the move I made because I invested in a big way not minding what people will like to say 😊
@@Godsbelovedkid she was! I first watched her interview with Alisa Childers when it was posted then watched the one with Mike -- they were both so good!
I relistened to Mike Winger's interview with Elisabeth at least 4 times by now. I learned a lot from her. Now I'm listening to your interview, Melissa.
As I was watching this, I went ahead and purchased the early childhood series 1! So excited to dip my toes in this for my 6 year old son. I love apologetics but teaching him to think critically has been really difficult. Thanks so much sisters! Melissa, have you thought about doing more of your "Train Them Up" series?
Soooo....as a Calvinist, how do you explain if your child is not predestined to love the Lord? What if you keep trying to teach your child but they are destined by the potter to be thrown into the fire?
This is great...I always said that if I ever get married and have kids, I am homeschooling them because I hated the education (lack thereof) that I received from k-12...college was dope, though, but that k-12 was ghetto...
I was Homeschooled 8th-12 grade. My parents just did it as a scam because they just got tired of dealing the public school district. I wanted to go to private school. When they pulled me outta school and demanded I do the school work, I refused and told my parents to go F@#! themselves ,I didn't understand any of the school work anyway,they ended just paying other adults to do the school work and I just went and got a job.. I bought my high school and college degrees from diploma mills ,no government agencies or employers ever questioned my credentials when I applied for work. I used to be a notary public for 8 years and nobody asked to see my high school degree or if I'm even competent enough to review or witness their government documents. I paid a fee, filled out paperwork, passed a background check, and sat through a one day class, and got a state notary public commission, and it's that simple. Eventually I just let it expire because I only used it a few times.
I got an ad for don'terasehistory which looks like the opposite of this content. Even going so far to blame the movement to get political ideology like C. R. T. and alphabet community curriculum.
Thank you, thank you! I woke up today thinking: I need resources to train myself to teach my 6 year old to think biblically, and I received your notification,” Wao God is good! I am soooo happy!
So thankful for this! Thank you! I’ve been thinking about homeschooling but it’s so intimidating. However this is really encouraging me to take the leap of faith! 🙏🏻❤️
100% understand your comment. As an ExJW I can tell you. Critical thinking and religion don't mix. You can say, biblically critical but not teach "critical thinking" and be christian
