At the CHEA homeschool convention this year, Gregg Harris noted that one of the reasons that some parents pull their children from the public school in order to educate them at home is because of the principle found in Proverbs 13:20:

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Parents don’t want their children to associate with others who act foolishly. The principle is simple: walking with the wise will help you become wise whereas walking with the foolish will incur harm.

But Harris did not stop there.  He went on to say that we need to make sure that once our children are home with us, they are indeed walking with the wise and not with fools. This struck a chord with me because I find myself acting foolishly on many occasions. How easy it is for us to forget that we as parents need to strive to be wise so that our children may become wise. This was an important reminder for me next time I act foolishly. Our children are watching and learning. May we walk wisely rather than simply cause them to suffer harm through our folly!