What About Mom?

Mom, the man does not need to spend hours planning and carrying out individual or family devotions in order to be the spiritual leader of the family.

You are the one who has responsibility for the children who are home all day and who arrive home before your husband does. You can choose activities which will feed your young children and challenge those who are a little older. You can read to the non-readers. You can help school-age children schedule their times for devotions and monitor their progress.

You can have the children so ready by the time Dad arrives home that they cannot wait to tell him what they have been learning, right after you and your husband spend a few minutes sharing with each other the events of your days. It helps to have a time of reacquaintance with one another after focusing on separate goals throughout the day. When Dad shares what he has learned from the passage, there will be a bond of understanding.

During family devotion times you can help the children share what they have been learning from and doing about the passage during the week. In this role you facilitate discussion and involvement rather than providing answers.