character training
Family Culture Fall Tree Activity
Recently I came to the realization that I needed to do better in leading the way in intentionally growing positive traits in our family. In order to not let the days be full of only discipline and correction, I needed to provide ideas for positive things we could do to grow together. We needed to…
Read MoreA Revolutionary Mindset for Family Chores
What used to be a given in the life of the family, chores are now apparently falling by the wayside, with only 28% of parents stating that they give their child(ren) chores, according to a recent study. Even in spite of the up and coming evidence that chores are beneficial to children (here, here, and…
Read MoreNot Teaching Your Kids the Old Testament? 8 Reasons to Start
I always have to give one of my good friends a hard time about how when we started college she didn’t realize that the David of “David and Goliath” was the same person as King David. And she even grew up in the church! We like to joke about it, but it’s kind of a…
Read MoreA Heart for Service Begins in the Home: 3 Areas of Service I Want to Instill in My Children
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. -Philippians 2:5-7 In his…
Read MoreHero Training! Kid’s Character Challenge – Week 8 – Truthful
It’s the last week of Hero Training! Woo! What a blast! This week is all about being truthful. I don’t know about you, but in our family telling the truth is very serious business. K knows that lying will get him in big trouble, so it was great to use this time to dig a…
Read MoreHero Training! Kid’s Character Challenge – Week 7 – Patience
I can’t believe we only have two weeks of Hero Training left! We will be finishing up just in time for you to start your Advent activities (are you doing Truth in the Tinsel?). This week we are working on a much needed virtue around here – patience! If you haven’t read the introduction to…
Read MoreHero Training – Week 6 – Joyful
Week six is a fun one, because it is all about JOY! You know it’ll be a good time when you spend a week focusing on being joyful! 🙂 If you haven’t read the introduction to the series yet, check it out here (it has all the instructions and info you’ll need). Get past weeks here: week one…
Read MoreHero Training! Kid’s Character Challenge – Diligence – Week 5
Week five of Hero Training is a week I have been looking forward to for a while! Many times I have told K to “be diligent” as he is working on something, yet in the back of my mind I knew that I really needed to teach him what being diligent even was! So, hooray!,…
Read MoreHero Training! Kid’s Character Challenge {Week 4 – Attentive}
Week four of Hero Training brought a new word to learn – attentive! While this may have been a character trait K had never heard of, it was definitely something he needed some practice in! We kept things simple this week to pair with the learning of a new concept – but we still had…
Read MoreHero Training! Kid’s Character Challenge {Week 3 – Creative}
It’s week three of Hero Training and we are having fun learning about how to be creative! If you haven’t read the introduction to the series yet, check it out here (it has all the instructions and info you’ll need). Get past weeks here: week one (helpful), week two (self-controlled) I hope you have fun doing the…
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