How often to do 'personal development?'

There is another recent post regarding this if you have time to look, but this is how we do it.  I read one of the stories every Sunday night.  This helps us Monday morning to have something to focus on for the week.  It takes us one month to complete each trait.  I use the verse as part of their Scripture memory and for copy work.  I also try to incorporate the trait into our day and our nightly prayers, for help achieving it, looking for opportunities to exercise it, forgiveness for lack of, etc.  It will take us one year to finish.  We have really liked it and this method works well for us but I imagine it could look pretty different for different families.

I do exactly what Sonya does…(Yay! that makes me feel like I’m doing something right! )

I just use different opportunities throughout the day to remind my kids of the character trait we read about. For example, when ds tires of reading a book after only one page, I remind him to be diligent. Or when dd tells me she “just can’t do such-and-such”, I remind her about being creative. I try to build one trait on top of another as we progress through the book. My children also really like the stories, and my son follows along as I read; so it’s like getting a 2-fer. ha!

Lindsey

Another book to try is The Book of Virtues by William J Bennett.  I am just starting SCM this year and haven’t looked at the A child’s Book of Charater.  We have been using The Book of Virtues thus far.  We will use A Child’s Book of Charater this coming year though and  then go back to THe Book of Virtues if it doesn’t last a whole year.  Another idea might be to incoporate The Book Of Virtues into your current plan thus extending each lesson some.

Kimberly