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Proverbs 6:20
My son, observe the commandment of your father and do not forsake the teaching
of your mother....

Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from
it.

Many parents have given over the academic education of their children to school
systems, and have largely given their spiritual training into the hands of others as well.
Many Christian parents take their children to Sunday School and church, and feel relieved
of any further responsibility for their children’s spiritual training. The deficiency in the lives
of most young people in the church is readily apparent. There is no substitute for the
parents bearing the responsibility themselves for their children’s spiritual training.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7
“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall
teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house
and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.”

Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline
and instruction of the Lord.

Who can say how much the family has suffered by women abdicating their roles as the
clothiers, nutritionists, educators, spiritual nurturers, and moral centers of their homes?
When Paul wrote to Titus and Timothy and gave the instruction of the Lord that the women
were to “keep house” and be “keepers at home,” these words encompassed a wealth of
activities that would influence the family in profound ways in both natural and spiritual
realms. It is little wonder that the older women were exhorted to instruct the younger in
this calling. There was a great need for instruction and training from one generation to the
next.

Titus 2:1-5
But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine... the older
women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much
wine, teachers of good things - that they admonish the young women to love their
husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient
to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

Staying home was no idle occupation. To be a homemaker was a rich and fulfilling
calling. The opportunities for the woman at home were endless. For the woman who has an
active mind, and a love of learning, there is no reason that she should be left dissatisfied
with the opportunities before her. To become knowledgeable and skillful at the art of
homemaking is a lifelong endeavor. Learning to be a home nutritionist, to plan and prepare
healthy, life promoting meals for one’s family, is something that many women have devoted