Our world has changed.
Our food is fake, our water poisoned.
Our health is gone, our families shattered.
We live longer, sickly lives –
filled with information, but lacking truth.
Our world continues.
Our children grow like planted seeds,
bursting forth from our familial soil.
But how will we teach them?
Who will teach them?
Our world is unchanging.
Together, they sit, watch, and learn
as our milk cow steps into her stanchion,
as I sat 30 years before,
as my father sat seven decades ago.
Who will teach them?
I will.
Having embraced the homestead lifestyle, I raise and teach my children at home. As part of our daily chores, my children love watching me milk our Jersey cow, Hazelle. While milking, I share with them memories of sitting and watching the cows come in as my father helped a local farmer milk his herd. My own father, who grew up on a small working farm, would tell how he watched his father bring in the cows – never more than 20 – to be milked.
Our world is changing fast – faster than ever. We often feel adrift in this constant change. But that, too, is a choice. Instead, we can choose to embrace a different life: a life of animal husbandry and tilling the ground, one that hearkens back to Cain and Abel; a life grounded in the unchanging God.
That is the life I choose to raise my children in, and I, as their parent, will do the teaching.
Dr. James Kring is a homeschool father, homesteader, farmer, and resident of Tallapoosa County.
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