Write The Word On My Heart: Our Family’s Honest Review
Blogging has some definite perks. One of those perks meant that my family received a copy of Write The Word On My Heart to try out! My daughter was beyond excited when the package arrived in the mail. (Okay, I was too. 🙂 )
Today I want to share with you the inside workings of this awesome Scripture memory system. Hopefully this review will help you know if your family should run out and get your own copy!
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What We Loved About Write The Word On My Heart
There are a LOT of good things about Write the Word On My Heart but there is two things about it that I love.
Passionate, Purposeful Discipleship
As Christian parents, our job is to disciple and bring up our kids to know their need for a Savior and the love that God has for them. This discipleship takes on so many forms. Write the Word on My Heart is a great tool to help you build a passionate and purposeful storehouse of Scripture hidden in your child’s heart.
More than anything else, I love the purpose and intent of this wonderful Scripture memorization plan. It has excited not only our daughter but our whole family to dive into Scripture memorization all over again!
Multitasking Subjects
Personally, I love the fact that it combines “subjects” in our school day. This year I knew we needed to make some big steps forward in practicing proper writing skills and copy work. But I hate that most copy work is just silly mindless sayings. The fact that my daughter has improved her handwriting already while simultaneously memorizing God’s Word is awesome.
And it frees up precious time in our day by not making the two subjects separate. Plus I love that she enjoys interacting with Scripture in so many different ways. For instance, she is saying it, reading it, coloring it, and even teaching it to her younger brother!
What We Liked About Write The Word On My Heart
Just The Right Amount Of Routine
Daily routine is good. It can help our brains establish patterns to make Scripture memory work easier. With that being said, kids need something that works as a break from routine and serve as a reward.
Write the Word on My Heart provides both well. For the first four days of the program, your kids will practice copying the weekly Bible verse and saying it out loud. Then when Day Five comes around, the kids get a fun break from the copy work and instead have a gorgeous coloring sheet.
For our daughter, this has been a HUGE reward. She absolutely loves coloring with markers so we give her markers and let her creativity run wild after she says her verse from memory.
The best part of these rewards is the fact that the memory work is part of the reward. I love when curriculum ties results directly into rewards.
Review Is Possible And Encouraged
Another huge perk of this program is that you can keep reviewing past verses as you move ahead with new verses. We take the coloring pages that have been completed and hang them as decorations by the kids’ rooms. Then as we go through the week, we review the past verses and keep those verses fresh while still adding new ones to the rotation. I love the fact that even when we “finish” a verse it doesn’t go away to never be seen again.
WTWOMH also has printables that allows you to make different reminder flags and such to help with this too if you want different methods. Be sure to check out what method works for your family!
What We Struggled With About Write The Word On My Heart
Out Of Context
Okay, here is my biggest struggle with pretty much all Scripture memory programs. We are memorizing Bible verses out of context. In today’s world, you will often hear Bible verses being used out of context of the Scripture. This leads to problems when people try to make Scripture say something that it doesn’t actually say. WTWOMH also has Bible verses that will be memorized out of context.
With that being said, this curriculum does a good job introducing each verse and trying to give it some of that context. However, I will say that for our family, I find it best to open our Bible and read the context surrounding each verse.
Curriculum is a tool that we use but that doesn’t negate the fact that as parents we have the responsibility to teach the Bible fully and completely.
Don’t skip out on this wonderful Scripture memory program simply because the Bible verses are not memorized in context. You will be waiting a long time if you want that program to exist.
Instead, step into those contextual gaps and read the Bible with your kids and talk about it together as you go through the program.
New Copybook For Each Child
As a parent with four kids close in age, I try to avoid purchasing too much curriculum that will be only one time use. WTWOMH is single use for each child. There is not really a way around that. But it is okay. I would prefer to spend a little money and invest in my kids doing Bible memory and copy work. And thankfully, WTWOMH is priced reasonably. This cost will be worth the wiggle room to make it happen for your family budget.
Final Thoughts About Write The Word On My Heart
As far as a Scripture memory program that is streamlined, affordable, and easy-to-accomplish, this curriculum does that. Like I mentioned above, if you are waiting for a “perfect” system to come along, you will never find it. Check out Write the Word on My Heart for your family. It is an affordable, practical way that you can introduce Scripture memorization to your family’s daily life.
Keep working to hide God’s Word in your heart and in the hearts of your children. His Word is truth and it will work in their hearts their entire lives.
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