Speaking of habits…new book questions

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  • mrsmccardell
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    I think the new book LDTRFC looks great. I viewed the sample pages and it brought up 2 questions:

    -Is there a particular age that this is more appropriate for? I understand habit training starts from day 1 but regarding the activities is where I’m more thinking of an ideal age.

    -When dc are younger than 7, is it too chaotic to simply use good, whole books as habit stories for them to hear? For example, last year I picked 1 habit to study/read for 6 weeks. Now, I’m simply picking from our habit-training books and reading different habits weekly. Mainly it was due to the difficulty in finding that many stories to read daily for 1 habit for 6 weeks.

    I’m thinking the new book will be great for us in 2 years. My children will be 8, 7, 4, and 2. I’d liked to utilize the copywork and activties that are mentioned in the sample pages. If you see a different idea that I could benefit from this now, please share your thoughts.

    Thanks. Blessings, Leslie

    Stacey
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    Bump. I have an 11 yr old and wondering if it is too late to start something like this.

    MountainMamma
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    I was thinking about this too reading through the samples. My DC are very young 4 and 2 and it seems like I should wait a few years to begin this study. mrsmccardell, I like your idea of reading good (in my case picture) books for habit development. I wish I could find a good book list categorizing habits and picture books to go along with them. Maybe I should come up with this on my own – we’ll see. My kids still need pictures to go along with read alouds or they start to drift off into space.

    sheraz
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    A Picture Perfect Childhood is a great book on using picture books to teach all sorts of subjects. She has a section on teaching children virtues by reading quality picture books – and has a list of several pages of book ideas to get you started. 😉

    Sonya Shafer
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    It’s never too late to start forming habits, sltress. But to answer both the posted questions, some of the activities and stories in the new Rails companion book are geared for younger ages and some for older ages. We encourage the reader to use those elements that fit her family best, and to use the ideas as a starting point for her own adaptations and ideas.

    Whatever you use for living examples, I would encourage you to go back to focusing on one habit for six to eight weeks rather than switch to a different one each week, Leslie. The readings are only one piece of the puzzle; you need time for the repetition to start forming new paths in the brain neurons. Don’t feel like you have to read something about the habit every day; in fact, that might be overkill. Work on practicing the habit every day for your main course, as it were, and add readings as tasty garnishes every once in a while, allowing plenty of time to digest the ideas between times. Smile

    Shannon
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    to MountainMamma, we do a lot of character related picture books. Here are some websites with suggestions. The first is my favorite:

    http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org (click Character Education on the sidebar, but they have others to choose from also…by subject, holiday, etc)

    http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr281.shtml

    http://www.instituteforhabitsofmind.com/

    http://web.archive.org/web/20060524035035/http:/www.charactercounts.org/booklist1.htm

    And the book ‘Books that Build Character’ by William Kilpatrick is EXCELLENT. Almost everything we’ve read out of it has been great.

    Also Beautiful Feet has ‘Teaching Character through Literature’. I don’t find the guide to be necessary but the book list is very good. The guide gives an order to lessons, some questions to ask about certain books and bible verses to go with the lessons. it is very simple, though. I bought the guide used and I’d say it was worth that money.

    I hope that helps,

    shannon

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