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Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.

I'm Sonia Schaefer.

We all want to instill good habits in our children, from the time their toddlers, through

the time they move out and start their own households.

We often think of habit training as something we do on the side.

We work on kindness alongside all of the regular activities of the day.

Or we work on orderliness as a constant requirement all day, every day.

But what if I told you that there are at least five habits that are built in to

homeschooling the Charlotte Mason Way? These are good habits that you will automatically

cultivate within your child as you use Charlotte's approach to education and her brilliant methods. Your child will receive that important

repetition every day as you use these methods. Repetition is key to developing habits,

and motivation is built in because your student knows that she's going to be held accountable for those lessons.

These habits are reinforced over all 12 years of schooling. All of them are important life habits,

good habits that will set your child up for success in life.

And they are cultivated simply as you are faithful to use Charlotte Mason's methods.

So let's take a look at the five life habits and discuss a little about why they're so important

and detail which methods cultivate them.

Habit number one. Listen attentively. You know how important this habit is. Whether you are

in the workplace, at a doctor appointment, sitting in a lecture or a sermon, or discussing something

with your spouse, or trying to resolve a dispute between children, or receiving instructions

at the start of a new adventure?

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