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Also available: Laying Down the Rails Workshop DVD and CD, the companion book Laying Down the Rails for Children, and Laying Down the Rails book, video, and audio bundles.
Discover the secret to smooth and easy days!
Reviews
“Laying Down the Rails is useful and practical and worth owning. Parents would do well to have it close by in order to refer to it often. Recognizing how powerful habits are and their potential helpfulness in the home school is the first step. Using this resource is definitely the second. Charlotte Mason had much to say on this valuable topic and this book has captured her vast wisdom and presented it in a friendly and easy to use format. I consider this work to be indispensable and will recommend it to all home schooling parents.”
“Laying Down the Rails is an amazing parent/teacher resource that should, in my opinion, be in every homeschool household, whether you are a Charlotte Mason educator or not.”
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.—Charlotte Mason
Charlotte likened good habits to rails on which our children’s lives could run smoothly. It is the parent’s business to lay down those rails.
Here, compiled into one volume, are all the habits Charlotte mentioned in her writings with her thoughts and suggestions for cultivating each one. This work also includes Charlotte’s help for breaking bad habits, hundreds of inspiring quotes, and lots of practical tips.
- Complete—Details more than fifty CM habits with their corresponding passages from Charlotte’s writings, as well as her thoughts on the importance of habits.
- Practical—Presents Charlotte’s writings in bite-size chunks with summary statements and quick personal review questions. Modern-day examples offer additional insight into applying CM principles today.
- Organized—Arranges all the habits into five main categories: decency and propriety habits, mental habits, moral habits, physical habits, and religious habits.
- Handy—Provides a Habits Checklist to help you track your child’s and your own progress in developing good habits.
- Encouraging—Motivates and inspires you with wonderful quotes from Charlotte Mason and many other great men and women of history, like Helen Keller, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, C. S. Lewis, Thomas Edison, and more!
- Easy to Use—Acts as a quick and easy reference book with an Index that lists all the habits and the pages on which they are mentioned.
You may also be interested in the companion book Laying Down the Rails for Children.
ChristyH – :
There were so many things that i underlined or highlighted that it is not even funny. So many little nuggets to mine. I liked how all the quotes for a topic were there all together. I recently started reading it again at a trouble spot we were having and it was nice just to go to the section I needed. Another thing that I really liked were the little “stories” at the beginning of some of the chapters. That helped me to take theory and see it in a practical application. I highly recommend this resource.
Ann Voskamp – :
One of the most productive homeschooling reads.
Worth every penny and more.
Needful, necessary stuff.
I return again and again to this book, all underlined and dog-earred.
Malissa VanZee – :
This book breaks down into manageable sections exactly what Charlotte Mason talks about and gives practical suggestions as to how to implement them. A definite must read for anyone with kids, whether you homeschool or not. A definite God send!!!
Melissa Gonzales – :
I reccommend this HIGHLY, there is no other to compare to this resource! Thank you for the hard work…
mama4x – :
I saw the DVD teaching of this tonight at a monthly homeschool meeting. Wow! Looking forward to the book. 60 habits… “don’t let the list browbeat you” she said. “Read her 6 volume work, or read this.”
amy in peru – :
absolutely EXCELLENT resource.
chock FULL of CM quotes, modern examples, practical suggestions, and a comprehensive checklist for use in everyday application!
thank you!
amy in peru
fisher academy
Donna Jo – :
Love this book! Mine is all marked up in the margins. I love that you put in space for us to take notes. We have a local homeschool group that meets once a month to discuss a section or two from this book.
Stephanie Cherry – :
This book has revolutionized my parenting and equipped me to teach everything I was not taught as a child. It is a great mentor. The fact that honesty and obedience are habits that can be taught alongside cleanliness and the like was a great encouragement to me. This is a must have for every parent. Not only for homeschoolers.
Sarah – :
Hi, I was wondering if this is available in a Kindle-friendly format (besides pdf)? Thanks!
Doug Smith – :
At this time the only electronic format we offer is PDF.
Jasmine Hill – :
This book is awesome ! Just what I needed as far as detailed advice on exactly what habits to teach in the areas of cleanliness, morality, mental habits, physical habits etc. If your not sure about it because of the cost, dont worry its worth it. And I am someone who has read many child rearing/homeschool books I was never really impressed with.
Leslie – :
Has the content of this book changed since the 2007 spiral-bound edition? Thanks, Leslie
Sonya Shafer – :
Hi, Leslie. We changed only the binding. The content remains the same.