Character-Moral, Family, Homeschool |
Character training is a part of giving our children the skills they need to live a relational and intentional life. I define character as the quality of our responses to people and circumstances. Character is what we call the actions we take based on our values. I...
Character-Moral, Family |
Character Education – intentionally teaching our children about character has been such an integral part of raising our children. How do you define Character? My definitions are: Character choices are the actions that reflect our value system. Character is...
Character-Moral, Family, Homeschool |
One of the buzz words in our culture today – especially in education – is “Growth Mindset”. As with any idea that we latch onto we need to first consider how it lines up with God’s word. My basic understanding of a ‘growth mindset’ is that when you have...
Character-Moral, Family |
If you were to look around your home or more importantly around your children’s hearts would you see slackness? Slackness is when things aren’t quite right – an attitude of nearly, but not quite. Slackness is doing enough to get by but not anywhere...
Character-Moral, Family |
There is more than one way to Teach a Character Trait The longer I am a parent and I see the variety in my children’s personalities, weaknesses and strengths I am more and more aware that there is more than one way to do things. There is more than one way to teach, to...
Character-Moral, Family, Homeschool |
These days it seems as if many children have difficulties or differences, challenges or disabilities. Some of them are considered hidden (like in our Daniel) because the children seem to have a reasonable degree of functioning but some are very obvious. Even...
Character-Moral, Family |
Inappropriate Responsibility – Did you ever hear of such a thing! Surely all responsibility is a good thing. But no, when our kids take on responsibility that isn’t theirs to take – it is inappropriate. To be honest, adults can do this too –...
Character-Moral, Family |
Do you ever get frustrated that your kids just step over stuff – for days? It seems that kids just don’t see mess – certainly they don’t respond to mess! Today I’m sharing a newsletter I shared with my readers over 6 years ago – but I really believe kids don’t...