Learning From Dad
What Children Learn From Dad Is
The Ultimate Education

A Father Led Curriculum for Training in Godliness
This is NOT a home school curriculum. This is a notebook to help EVERY dad to lead and train his family. Men use tools – many kinds of tools for many things. This notebook is a tool for training the family. Just as pastors and elders and teachers equip the church, so fathers must equip their families. An important part of training is teaching right concepts, which then become building blocks of convictions and commitments.

A Word About Dads Teaching
Dads don’t have much time to teach. But every dad must spend some time teaching. Therefore, since time is limited, dads should teach the most important things – concepts of life, Biblical convictions, and family commitments. They should teach the things God has taught them and the things God is teaching them. Some dads are not Bible scholars and not teachers. They need a little help to get organized. Other dads know the Bible well but would like some new ideas for teaching. But very few dads have the time to read lots of pages to prepare for family devotions. That’s why men use tools. Tools reduce time and energy, and increase power, and precision. This notebook is designed to give dads a tool for training.

How to Find the Time
God gives a pattern in Deuteronomy 6. First He says that these things (These Words of God) are to be in our heart. Next we are to be diligent. That means that we can expect family training to take planning, work, and commitment. Finally we are to teach them simply by talking about them repetitively. When? - at bedtime, in the morning, when we travel and when we sit at home. In other words, any time we are together – use all those natural daily times with the family.

Features of the Learning From Dad notebook:
- Simple but comprehensive
- Brief but doesn’t compromise depth
- Concise
- Focus on concepts
- Many useful ideas
- Helpful discussion starters

Here’s the basic idea of Learning From Dad

Take an Attribute of God (a characteristic of Godliness) and:

1. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

• How does this attribute of God make a Christian more attractive?
• What interesting questions can be asked about it?
• How is it defined?
• Where do we find an example in the Bible?
• What other interesting terms are associated with it?
• How can we see Christ and the cross through it? How does it teach us the gospel? By this question we are helping our family see the gospel from a new angle each month. Rather than feeling preached at the family is simply eager to figure out how to see the cross in a new way. Soon they begin to understand the depth of the cross and of the gospel of Christ and of salvation.
• Where is the battle in this area? What is the narrow way versus the wide way?
• How is Satan attacking in this area?

2. FULFILL THE FOLLOWING PATTERN

• Bring this characteristic to the family’s attention every few days.
• Memorize something from scripture about it
• Do at least one small assignment (people learn more by “doing”).
• Tell some stories.
• Review an example from the Bible.
• Incorporate it in prayer.
• Watch for how God brings it into your family this month.
• Teach it to someone else.

This is how Learning From Dad is designed. Each of the 12 Attributes of God in this notebook does most of the homework for dad by giving him the material and ideas for the above questions and projects.

The Learning From Dad notebook comes with a taped message by the author, Harold Mally, which includes some encouraging thoughts for dads and a short sample of one of the sessions. The cost is $20.00 plus shipping. Additional Attributes are being completed and will be available in the future.