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Habits Q & A: Bad Influences and Busy Schedules
What do you do when an outside influence or a busy schedule threatens to sabotage your habit-training efforts?
Category Habits
Notes on the habits that Charlotte Mason encouraged parents to cultivate in their children.
Habits Q & A: Helping a Timid Child and Habits While Moving
Sonya answers questions about how to help a timid child gain confidence and how to keep up with good habits while you're moving.
Habits Q & A: How to Break a Bad Habit
Sonya shares some practical tips for breaking a bad habit the Charlotte Mason way.
Habits Q & A: Parent’s Character; Maintaining a Sweet, Even Temper
How the parent’s character affects habit training and how Mom can keep a sweet, even temper.
Habits Q & A: Training the Will
Sonya explains the key to helping children learn to make good choices.
Will: Core Values of Charlotte Mason
We need to teach our children the difference between “I want” and “I will.”
Habits Q & A: Starting with Older Children; Dealing with Negativity
How can you start habit training with an older child? How do you help a child who tends to think negatively?
Habits Q & A: Habits with Multiple Children
What’s the best way to approach habit training with multiple children in the family?
Habits Q & A: Special Needs; One at a Time
How do you cultivate good habits but also a flexible mind-set in an autistic child? How do you focus on only one habit with several children?
Habits Q & A: Consequences
Here are four steps to help you come up with effective consequences.
Habits Q & A: Introduction to Habit Training
Sonya begins a new series answering questions about habit training.
Your Questions Answered: Does Best Effort Kill Love of Learning?
Are we killing the love of learning in our children by requiring them to put forth their best effort?
Habit Training Yourself — New Workshop Video
I forget which convention it was that started it all. I had just finished presenting the workshop on Laying Down the Rails, all about instilling good habits in your child’s life. As I was taking off the lapel mic and…
3 Ways to Develop Willpower
Right off the bat, some of you may be thinking, “Strengthen my child’s will? I don’t need to strengthen it. He’s a strong-willed child already!” And that may be the case, but don’t jump to any conclusions. You might want…
Is Your Child Strong-Willed or Weak-Willed?
A few weeks ago I did a post on the Way of the Will as a little refresher course on how Charlotte Mason explained the will and how it works. Many of you responded with requests for more on that…
Your Questions Answered: Not Repeating Yourself
Today I’m joined by my friend and co-worker, Laura Pitney, to do another installment of Your Questions Answered. The question for today is quite interesting: “You say not to repeat yourself, but I’m wondering how you teach this? I have…
The Way of the Will
I was recently talking with a group of parents, and in the course of our time together, I mentioned how important it is to make sure our young adults know how the will works. Well, all of the parents in…
Working On Best Effort During the Summer
We talked last time about how the summer months can be a great time to give focused effort in habit-training, even if you’re taking that time off from schoolwork. Especially if you’re taking that time off from schoolwork! When you…
Working On Attention During the Summer
When I was a girl, I took piano lessons. I would practice diligently during the school year, but my teacher always gave her students the summer off. So I got used to not practicing during the summer months. Later, in…
5 Life Habits Built Into a Charlotte Mason Education
We all want to instill good habits in our children, from the time they are toddlers through the time they move out to start their own households. We often think of habit training as something we do on the side.…