do you think CM builds character?

Well, for me, I hadn’t really thought about character building as a subject until I became familiar w/ CM.  Now we go to church and are believers, try to be good citizens, don’t drink/smoke/steal, etc., but I hadn’t thought about developing my dcs character in the way I do now.  I hope that makes sense and that we just didn’t care before, cause that’s not it, but we do in a different way.  And, I look at our material in a different way. I look at attention, respect (from all of us), good habits (and I’m into the flylady already), good literature as food for the mind, etc.

For me, even though we were already homeschooling, before I became a CMer, I was choosing material for their academics and working from another direction for character (actually, I wouldn’t even had called it that).  Now our academic material may have character building qualities built in (I may or may not tell my kids, but just let them dig it out for themselves, which I wouldn’t have done in the way past).

I have to run…maybe I can add more later.