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Posted: June 08 2006 at 11:20pm | IP Logged Quote Dawnie
I want to start reading from the Bible more with my kids. It seems like a lot of curriculum suggest using other sources to teach children Bible history...for example, The Life of Our Lord for Children to teach New Testament and a children's Bible to teach Old Testament. I'd like to read straight from the source to my oldest dd, but I'm not sure how to handle some of the situations that occur in the Old Testament. For example, in Genesis, after Lot and his family flee Sodom, his daughters get him drunk and "lay" with him in order to bear children. Should I just skip parts like this? What about King David and Bathsheba? Maybe this is exactly why children's Bibles are suggested for teaching the Old Testament! I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences on using the Bible with your children. What do you leave out, if anything? Or do you read everything and just answer questions if they come up? Thanks!

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Posted: June 09 2006 at 1:36am | IP Logged Quote Katie
Dawn,

For the reasons you stated and the fact that much of the Old Testament can be a bit of a dry read, I choose to use Bible Story books for the younger crowd. I tend to either work my way through a book I have on the shelf (right now it's Tomie de Paola's Book of Bible Stories). I read about 3x a week, and our current thing is acting the stories out with wooden animals and people after each reading. My dd the same age as yours is very tactile so this helps her a lot, plus to her it's playing, not narration!

At other times I do select a particular Old Testament story and read straight from the Bible, either as part of a unit, or due to a whim of mine. About 18 months ago I realised that I was so busy worrying about what to do for "religion" that I wasn't doing anything. That was when I started picking up all those Bible story books and reading our way through them.

I'm not sure if that has helped, but that is what we do. I figure there is plenty of good stuff to keep us busy for a while; Sodom and Gomorrah can wait for a bit longer.

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