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Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason method.

I'm your host Emily Kaiser and I'm here today with Liz Kattrell and

Nicole Williams and our newest member in the

Delectable Education studio if you hear little baby noises Atticus is with us today.

Today we're going to be talking about habit training

and it is hard for us to believe we have recorded 160 something episodes and never done one exclusively on habit

training. Of course the subject comes into many others and so you'll hear us reference habits in one of our early episodes on the three

instruments of education. Of course we talk about the way of the will and the way of

reason and habit plays into that and then just all through narration requires attention and all kinds of things but we realize

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