Student & Parent Resources

Dear Parents,

At Coram Deo Academy, our mission is to help you train your children in the way they should go. One of the ways we can accomplish this is to send home ideas and materials with your children that will allow them to grow as they interact with you at home. These tools will aid you and us as we work towards the goal of training their minds to know wisdom and shaping their hearts to worship God.

Let’s get started!

The Bible teaches, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land” (Ephesians 6:1-3). Obedient children who honor their mothers and fathers will succeed at home, school, and in a life lived, Coram Deo.  

How can we work together to do this?

Just the other day, as the children entered the building and began to go to their classrooms, I observed an essential detail worth noting. As the children entered their rooms, they started to do a routine as if they were preprogrammed to complete. Of course, my presence only served to distract from what was important: the daily routine!

You see, each day, the children come in, put away their lunch boxes, hang up their coats, and remove their work folders from the cubby, placing them neatly on their assigned desks. But there is more happening here than meets the eye at first glance. The children are automatically obedient to the rules they have already learned about in class. As I stated, it's (the) routine!

Every school day, the children are asked to obey routinely when it comes to listening, getting their math done, and even staying in their seats while eating lunch; it’s the rules! But it is also the routine! 
 

We want the same for them at home.

At home, children can be taught obedience by having fun. Make it a game; make it something that doesn’t seem so involved. Tell your child you will play the obedience game, and then give them fun things to do to be obedient. Soon, this game becomes routine.

You can say:

“Susie, run to the fridge and grab me one pickle out of the pickle jar.”

“Johnny, run to the cabinet and get a snack for Fido.”

“Darla, see how fast you can go and grab me some towels from the cabinet, and then have a contest to see who can fold them the fastest.”

The children will see this as fun and not such a burden; they will begin to obey your requests more and more quickly, and it will become the routine. This is the key to Biblical obedience: we obey because it honors the authorities over us. In this case, the child obeys their parent, and it becomes a blessing to them because in obeying you, they are obeying God.