Many times I’ve had moms and dads come up to me and say, “What do you have for younger kids?” Well, it’s a critical need. Because the studies show us that a person’s basic views about life are formed during the morally formative years between five and eleven.

• A while back, I talked about a teenager who attended a worldview training camp run by Summit Ministries. The young man complained, tongue in cheek, that worldview training had “ruined” movie watching for him. He could not longer watch films without automatically searching for the worldview messages.

That’s great news: The whole point of worldview training is to “ruin” attempts to convince teenagers that any worldview conforms to reality better than Christianity does.

But we can’t wait until the teen years to start talking to kids about worldview-and parents know it. Many times I’ve had moms and dads come up to me and say, “What do you have for younger kids?”

Well, it’s a critical need. Because the studies show us that a person’s basic views about life are formed during the morally formative years between five and eleven. I’ve seen this first hand in the prisons over the years as the prison populations have exploded with inmates who have no parents that can teach them right and wrong at the ages when they can be really, morally shaped.

My colleague John Stonestreet is a speaker and writer for Summit Ministries…John told me he and his colleagues were frustrated over the quality of Christian books for kids. Most of them contained Bible lessons with a moral at the end. But’s that not teaching worldview. So Summit joined with Apologia educational ministries to write a worldview series for kids.

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