But other homeschooling moms aren’t taught this freedom. They have been told that if they really love their children and want to please God in their education, then they must homeschool. They have been taught that they must not delegate this work to another. They have been given misinterpretation of scripture, so as to conclude that parents are the exclusive teachers, despite the fact that the godly among God’s people delegated not only teaching, but other things in rearing their children.

Following is a prayer and a poem a mom might pray and say if she consistently applied the teaching of those who maintain that homeschooling is the only way a parent should educate.

Critics will complain that no mom would ever pray this way; that’s because critics refuse to see the conclusions reached when their law is consistently applied.

As for the poem, maybe it comes at the end of a long day.

A Mom’s Prayer?
“Father, I thank you for our children and the awesome responsibility that you have placed on me and my husband to be their teachers. Lord, I pray that you will be our Helper. As I anticipate the future, I find myself overwhelmed at times. You know how limited our education is and that our strengths don’t seem to lie in teaching skills, so I pray you will give us grace.

Today I also bring before you some friends of mine from church about whom you know I have been burdened for some time. Please hear my intercession for them.

First, I pray for Lula. You know what a homeschool advocate she is, but now she has started bringing the children from other parents into her home for her to teach them, in what she calls her community school. Help her to understand that what she is doing is no different in principle than Christian parents sending their child off to a Christian school. Lord, help her to see her hypocrisy and help the parents of those children who come to her home to see how they are abdicating their responsibility.

Father I also ask you to speak to Bertha’s heart and convict her of her sin as well. You know how she has a GED and has a son you’ve made to be so very gifted in the sciences; but, Lord, she has a college student to come in and teach her son, and you know how wrong that is. Lord, help Bertha to understand that in your providence her son has her and no one else to teach him the sciences.

Then Father, you know how burdened my heart is for Gertrude. Gertie is so good in music and she trades music teaching with other homeschoolers for teaching her children in other areas. Lord, help her and these other parents to repent of such child swapping. Spare our church though this evil has persisted for so long.

Finally, I pray for Opal. I see her using video lessons and textbooks produced by others. She just turns her kids loose to learn from total strangers. Can’t she and others understand that just because the video is playing in their den, or the textbook is open on the kitchen table, that that doesn’t mean it is homeschooling? Help Opal to see that she and her husband must be the teachers, not someone on some video, no matter who it is who produced it. Help them to see that parents must be their children’s teachers, and this can’t in any way be delegated to another.

So Lord, for Lula, Gertie, Bertha, and Opal, give them real repentance and turn them from these evil ways.

Hear my prayer through Jesus Christ I pray, Amen.

NEVER DELEGATE

If God gave me ability to procreate,
Then I’m told I’ve ability to educate.
This work to a Christian teacher I‘ll not delegate,
Thank men, not God, my life to regulate.

With my child come teeth, I see.
Therefore, I must a dentist be.
A root canal I’ll perform, fill a cavity,
No delegating this work for me.

Now my child, why squint with your sight,
Do you need glasses for day and night?
I’ll be your optometrist to make some just right,
Hold juice glasses to your eyes, but not too tight.

When your body is ill, I’ll be your MD.
No pediatrician for you, I’m Dr. Mommy.
Procreate, Mommy educate, never delegate, no siree,
We’ll do this in all things, even brain surgery.