While many people think that Home Schooling is a new phenomenon, it has been around since the founding of this country. Children a long long time ago were taught using the bible because they didn't have schools and that was one of the only books the they did have to teach from. The Bible was used not just a religious text but as a tool for teaching reading and writing. Along with this children leaned the practical necessities and values of life from their families and the acquired wisdom of their communities. Thus came into being the Christian Home Schooling .

If you can believe it school wasn't mandatory until the year of 1852 when the people of Massachusetts made it mandatory. While the law was good in theory, in practice many children from outlying areas were to far from schools to be able to attend schools and education in the house continued. Things slowly changed and by 1918 every state had its own laws on the compulsory education of children. With the spread of schools, formal education became a reality and by the middle of the 20th century, education provided by the school system was accepted as the norm. By the 1960s however, parents began to have doubts about the standard of formal school education, the values it taught and the harmful influences their children were being exposed to. Looking for an alternative, people started educating their children at home and today home schooling is legal in all 50 states and an estimated 2 million children are being homeschooled today. Among the various options for home schooling available today is the Christian home school.

There are no hard and fast rules in regard to what constitutes a Christian home school. Some families create the formal school environment at home with a room reserved as a class room, fixed study times, recesses and even home work for the children to do on their own. Others integrate schooling into their Christian life style and place less emphasis on a formal education environment and more on the teaching of life skills and values through example and the active participation of their children. 

A search of the internet will reveal a variety of Christian HomeSchooling programs that parents can adopt. The most important part of this program is that you want to instill christian values on your children and every thing else revolves around that. But it is not necessary to use these programs in a Christian home school. Many parents use non religion based home school  programs and add their own religious teaching to these. If you stay within the acceptable state laws you can really adjust home schooling to what your true needs are at that moment in time.

The basis of a Christian home school is that Christian values are passed on to the children, either in a formal structure manner of a specific program or in a way and by using methods that parents feel are more suitable for their families.

There is no right or wrong way to create a Christian home school. As long as part of the education encompasses teaching the children the Christian values that the parents believe in, the home school becomes a Christian home school.

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