Habit Training – Group Effort or Individual?

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  • November 15, 2010 at 3:10 pm
    Sue
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    I have read some material on habit training, and I see that is recommended to focus on one habit at a time over several weeks.  Have any of you worked on the same habit with all of your children at one time, or do you normally choose a different habit per child?  Which do you think works best?

    My tired brain is telling me that one habit for the entire family would be simpler and easier (especially at this time of the year), but I do want to produce good results.

    Thanks,

    Sue

    November 15, 2010 at 7:36 pm
    simple home
    Member

    Hi Sue,

    I went to a recent CM seminar and Sonya said to work on one habit with the whole family, if that can work for you. It is simple and easier to be consistent in this way.

    Blessings!

    November 15, 2010 at 9:24 pm
    Sue
    Participant

    That does seem a lot simpler to me, but it just brought up another thought that is unique to my family….well, not necessarily so, but at least perhaps unique to special needs families.  My son, mildly autistic, often takes a very, verrrryyyy long time to take hold of a habit.  (Just like his math concepts!)  If I were to work on just one habit with the whole family, it would be fine to start but likely that they would have acquired the habit long before he did.

    So, any suggestions on how to handle that?  I really want to see positive change and growth in my family as a whole, but I also need to keep things simple for my sanity’s sake!

    Blessings,

    Sue

    November 16, 2010 at 1:38 am
    Sonya Shafer
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    As you said, for sanity’s sake choose one habit to focus on for the whole family. That would be the habit you talk about together, memorize verses about, and encourage each other in.

    Then if you have older children, you might want to explain to them how this whole habit-formation works and encourage them with a habit that is personalized. Or, in this case, Sue, you might want to keep your son working on the one habit, but select another one for the rest of the family to work on — hopefully, one that isn’t as crucial for your son, so he can keep focused on the one. Maybe the second family habit would be some skill that is beyond your son at this point or that might frustrate him. He could keep working on the first family habit, that everybody else already has now, while the rest of the family picks up a second one. 

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