Read with an attitude: Your own attitude toward the Bible is contagious; it will likely become your children's attitude. Respect God's Word as a practical guide to life rather than treating it as an obscure religious handbook that sits quietly on a shelf gathering dust. When you're making decisions as a family, helping your children make their own decisions, or feeling curious about how something in life works-saving money, for example- look up what the Bible says. When you're teaching your children life principles such as honesty and kindness, anchor what you're teaching with actual verses from the Bible.
But be careful not to refer to the BIble only when things are serious. Allow it to become a normal and everyday part of your life- a constant, practical, helpful reference that's used daily. The Bible should be as natural a guide for life as TV Guide is for television. If you're just beginning this process, start slowly and build. You'll have your whole family running for cover if you go from little or no Bible study straight to biblical blitz with both barrels blazing. The best first step is to sit down and talk to your children about what the Bible is, what it teaches, and what role it should play in people's lives. Talk to them about beginning to use it as the instruction manual for life in your family, and move forward with everyone working together. It's this daily access that keeps God's wisdom working in our children's hearts and minds.
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