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How Chores Prepare Children for Life
Join Sonya and Karen for a conversation about how you can prepare children for adult life through chores, and what chores are appropriate for which ages.
Category Habits
Notes on the habits that Charlotte Mason encouraged parents to cultivate in their children.
Habits Q & A: Avoiding Pressuring a Child; When to Move on to a New Habit
Sonya answers questions about how to know when you're pressuring a child too much, and how to know when it's time to move on to a new habit.
Habits Q & A: Habit Training with Young Children
What can you do to establish good habits in the toddler and preschool years?
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?
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?