Nurturing Your Child’s Heart One on One

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What I love about homeschooling is that you can take your time to really learn something in detail.

While we were at the local aquarium taking a Charlotte Mason approach to field trips, we were able to just focus in on the things that the children were very interested in at that moment. It was a time where we could just slow down and learn everything we could about those things of interest.

A sweet thing I would have never learned so easily as a mother was how tender my youngest’s five year old heart was toward injustice.

We were looking for the large sea turtle in its usual aquarium but could not find it. My sweet child inquired about it with the volunteer. He told us that the angel fish in the aquarium were interested in the parasites that clung to him. Because of that they kept picking at him creating sores. The turtle had to be moved into a different aquarium until he properly healed.

Her sweet heart was ready to get those angel fish and have them make it right with the turtle! This is so precious to a mother’s heart. She is understanding restoration. Yet in the midst of all of this we got to learn about the angel fish and what it eats and why this happened. The angel fish was at first helping the turtle by cleaning it of parasites but after a while the helping turned into damaging. There were so many lessons in this about life.

After we studied our subjects of angel fish and turtles we learned much more than we went for.

When it was time to draw or journal what we saw she drew a great picture of the turtle. Her interest in learning is so precious to me. I praise God that I am able to see it all first hand and help guide her. If she was in a large group she would have gone away mad not understanding why the sweet turtle was injured. Sometimes one on one time is best. I am thankful that I can be her teacher. I bet you are too.

Angela Parsley, of the international ministry Refresh My Soul Ministries, is a wife and homeschooling mother to her 2 young daughters. Angela is also a contributing author to a devotional book entitled, “Standing on the Promises of God” and Radical Revolution, a devotional site for teen girls through Proverbs 31 Ministries.