If you've been around Charlotte Mason or simply Charlotte Mason very long, you probably know that habit training is an important element of a Charlotte Mason education.

And most likely, you love the idea of instilling good habits in your children that will set them up for success in life and give you smooth and easy days in the meantime.

But sometimes habit training can feel a little hazy. It's this thing that you're supposed to do, but how do

you get started? And can you actually make plans to work on habits? Is it something you can

include in your homeschool planning and

schedule? The answer is absolutely yes. I'll show you how. Welcome to the Simply Charlotte

Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. Though we do work on habits as the opportunity arises each day,

and not all of those opportunities can be scheduled, we can still include habit training in our homeschool plans.

Let me walk you through it step by step and give you some very

practical tips. Step one. Choose the habit category that you want to focus on. The habits that

Charlotte Mason recommended we work on are very much what we could call character traits, diligence, orderliness,

courtesy, kindness, for example. Each of those terms is a broad category that can have

multiple ways to apply it. So start with the habit category that you want to focus on. Our free e-book

Smooth and Easy Days will give you the list of 60 habits that Charlotte wrote about

and recommended. Just choose one, one at a time. It will take about six or eight weeks of focused attention to get

that habit up and running. So an easy way to integrate that time frame into your homeschool

planning is to choose two habits per term. A term is 12 weeks long, so you can work on one habit for the first six weeks, and

a second habit for the last six weeks of the term. If you are using our enrichment

studies guide, you'll see that's how the habits are scheduled in those plans. One habit

for six weeks, two per term.

Step two then.

Determine what you want that habit to look like for each child.

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