Help! Parenting Means Teaching Doctrine
For parents who are looking for aids to family worship and teaching your covenant children the Shorter Catechism, here are two suggestions:
- First, The Catechism for Young Children is a great little booklet. It puts the catechism to cartoons that help our concrete, visual young ones to grasp what is being conveyed in the doctrines of the catechism. This booklet, in two volumes, is now available on the church resource table.
- Second is a book, Training Hearts, Teaching Minds by Starr Meade. The book goes through all 107 questions in the Westminster Shorter Catechism and has six daily devotions on each. The idea is that every day for a week you will recite the question and answer for that week followed by reading the devotion for that day. There are six devotions per question leaving the Lord’s Day for your own family worship. After the week is done, your child should have the question and answer memorized. After two years, your child will have the entire Shorter Catechism memorized.
Both of these resources are great ways to teach your children the doctrines of our holy religion, to encourage a daily family worship, and to incorporate catechizing into family worship!