Teaching discipline of good habits

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  • September 9, 2010 at 4:31 pm
    anniepeter
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    Anyone want to share their plan for teaching and reinforcing good habits this year?  I’m trying to put this right in my plans foitr the year, term, week as I plan this school year using Sonya’s book.  I’m interested in how the rest of you do this.  I just feel the need for it to be on paper so I can be more intentional and consistent about it.  I’ll post my finished plans later (hopefully not too many days from now) when I finish outlining them.

    So far I’m planning on obedience for my two little ones going on 2 and 4 and also for my 10 yo who should have it down, but doesn’t.  We need to work on cheerful, immediate execution.  For the whole family… focused attention.  Then mostly for my 10, 15, 17 and MYSELF… responsiblity including putting things away instead of setting them down, picking up when we leave a task rather than leaving it b/c we’re going to finish later, when others are working we help, work (school included) before play/free time, work quickly, steadily, and energetically/efficiently till the job is done with a “can-do” attitude.  So, one thing I’m wondering about is since these last topics all concern responsibility should I still consider each one a separate habit and plan on spending a good 6-8 weeks on each?

    My number one thing is to develop the habit of working on habits!!

     

    Julie

    September 9, 2010 at 9:00 pm
    Esby
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    I’ve noticed among all members of my family a habit of interrupting. We’re doing something a bit different with our habit training at the moment – the whole family is working on eliminating our collective habit of interrupting each other.

     

    September 9, 2010 at 10:18 pm
    LindseyD
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    We are working on implementing more natural consequences for undesirable behavior. I tend to focus on two or three habits at once, instead of the recommended one-at-a-time approach. There are pros and cons to doing it that way, but I think the excitement in me wants to be an over-acheiver or something! HA! 

    I am re-working our chore charts this evening. I usually do that at least once, and sometimes twice per year, as the children get older and are able to handle more responsibility. My main goal this year is to keep them looking at and doing their chores without being told, “Check your chore chart please” or “Have you done everything on your chart for today?”. We’ve got the habit of attention down (thankfully), and that took us almost all of last year. We did have a four-month period though when we were moving/remodeling our house, when all habits basically went out the window. Don’t ever want to do that again! Another habit we were able to form last year in the children was modesty. They had previously shared a bedroom, and it was difficult to coordinate changing clothes in front of one another.

    The natural consequences are to reinforce the habit of first-time, joyful obedience. I re-read bits and pieces of Laying Down The Rails as I have time, and if you do not have that book, I heartily recommend it! I don’t put our habits into the Organizer or anything, although I would like to order The Way of the Will calendar journal from this site. 

    Hope that helps,

    LindseyKiss

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