Do Home School Children Keep the Faith of their Parents?

~ Connie Wollenhaupt

Studies reported by the NHERI have shown that over 94% of homeschooled children will maintain the faith of their parents after they have graduated. This is particularly important because the two most frequent reasons parents gave for teaching their children at home was to provide a better education for them and for religious reasons. The third and fourth most common reasons parents gave for homeschooling were to teach their children certain values, beliefs, and worldviews and to develop better character and morality. Choosing a fundamentally sound Christian curriculum, such as offered by ABBA Homeschool Academy, is important in helping parents pass their faith on to their children.
There are additional actions you as a parent can take to ensure your children keep the faith.

1. Let your children know that God is important to you. Talk about Him to your children during the course of your day. Don’t wait until you’re teaching Bible to tell your children how important God is.


2. Pray with your children at different times during your day. Start your school day off with prayer. Make sure to thank God for Blessing you with your children. Call them by name when you pray.


3. Be involved in your church. But at the same time don’t let church activities split your family apart. Make Sunday the best day of the week, something your children will look forward to.


4. Use incidents that happen during the day as a way to prove to your children that you believe what you profess. Let the circumstances of life become opportunities to model God’s message of love, forgiveness and trust. This is probably the single most important way to evangelize your children.


5. When your child has a problem, make sure you pray with them. Use problems as a teaching tool to instruct your children in Christian values and beliefs. Conflicts between siblings can be a great way to teach Biblical conflict resolution and forgiveness.


6. Let your children know that you consider home schooling to be a privilege, not a chore. Let them know that they are important to you and that they are important to God.

Every curriculum offered by ABBA Homeschool Academy is based on Christian principles and contains a Bible course as one of the core subjects. We believe our curriculum choices will help make it easier for you as a parent to pass on your Christian values, beliefs, and worldviews to your children. The Christian principles taught throughout our curriculum will help your children develop better character and morality. All of these are vital to your children keeping the faith.