Home as the Greenhouse

People seem to not really see babies as helpless, dependent little people. They beleive they were born to be shoved out into the world--they actually think they ought to be shoved into it as soon as possible so they can grow and mature more quickly. Supposedly children can handle the world on their own without their parents. Parents believe that they should not control their child's environment and their duty to give their children over to teachers, peers, and public education, which decides their environment. This is supposedly for superior than the "old-fashioned" rearing and raising by the parents themselves.
Deuteronomy 6:7 describes the parents to "teach them diligently;" the entire Bible has descriptions of the home being the "greenhouse for young plants. Psalm 128:3 and Psalm 144:12 speak of children as plants nurtured at the house and about the table. These two Psalms also speak of a blessed  mother and a blessed nation. The family and nation that rasies children in a Christian environment at home will be blessed.

Children will preform how they were raised once grown. Whatever they had most around them will stay as permanent memories that affect the decisions and morals of their lives.
Instead of values of diligence, respect, appreciation of Christianity, purity, modesty, and etc...we will have whatever were the influences at the school---drunkenness, laziness, gluttony, fornication, deceitfulness,  runners of mischief, bitterness, disrespect. They become the product of the environment their parents carelessly and thoughtlessly placed them in.
When in a green house, children will mature and become REALLY independent. They will have strong characters formed by saturation  in God's word and the sight of it in your life. You will have given them roots and wings.