90% of America’s children spend
16,000 hours of their young lives in
schools that fail to teach the truth
about God and His Word.
them to try again. Their new exclamations over the beautiful
work filled our room with joy and produced a response of
thanksgiving to God for the help He provided.
Habit training that leads students to rely on Christ
requires extra time and patience, as well as a shift from secu-
lar thinking. It is not our job to get students to merely do
what we want them to do but to train them to desire to do
right because they love God and love others. The Bible does
not teach self-help skills. It teaches dependence on God: “I
can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil
4:13). Training students to rely on the power of Christ
enables them to rise above their own natural abilities and
tackle new skills with God-driven confidence. Teachers who
train their class in the biblical habits of attention, respect,
and obedience will witness the joy of godly character forma-
tion in their students—a worthy investment to be sure.
Joleen Steel is the curriculum specialist for Camping Stick
Kids (campingstickkids.com). Her love for the good news of
Jesus Christ flows out of her and into the Camping Stick Kids
curriculum. She earned a B.A. in elementary education and
taught public school for ten years before deciding to open
her own music studio and homeschool her boys. Now that
her two oldest boys are grown, Joleen teaches at Clapham
School, a classical Christian school in Wheaton, IL.
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