It's easy to think of the habit of obedience as an all-or-nothing prospect.

Now, I would agree that we want our children to obey in everything.

However, sometimes we can inadvertently overwhelm them, or expect too much too soon.

As in other areas of character development, we want to help our children set up

good habits. And sometimes it helps to approach those habits layer upon layer. Let me explain

what I mean.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.

I'm Sonia Schaefer.

We're in the midst of a series on habit training.

So far we've talked about how to intentionally plan and schedule for this important aspect

of your child's education and how to customize the specific

habit that you want each child to work on.

Last time we talked about the broad category of the habit of attention and how some children

can easily apply that broad habit to all areas of life, but others may need to approach

it layer upon layer.

We discussed some ways to think through specific habits that you might help a child cultivate

during a focused time on attention and how you could increase or decrease the challenge of that habit for

that child.

Today we want to do the same thing with another habit that Charlotte Mason recommended.

Like the habit of attention, this habit is foundational.

In fact, it is upon these two habits that all the other habits rest. Today,

we're talking about the habit of obedience. Now let's review how habits are formed. In our

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