Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest

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Hi everyone, I hope you're having a good day. This is Sally Clarkson and I am continuing

today on our 24 Family Ways way number 14. And I was thinking today because I think I'm

going to do a little bit different podcasts than normal of how exhausting it is to train

children and especially to way number 14. It's way number 14 says we take initiative

to do all of our own work without needing to be told. And oh my goodness, that's such a

hard thing to teach to teach our children to do things without us telling them and to see

that they become responsible without us even encouraging them. Now if you have several

kids what you will learn, several children, is that some children are just much more

naturally prone to being that way. Some children are born Pharisees, some children are

born doing everything right, organizing everything, cleaning up. There are occasionally children

like that and they're dream children. And a lot of times because we spend so much time

training our first children, they take in a lot of our guilt and our ideals and they

might take a little bit more initiative. But I do think that this whole area of teaching

our children to take initiative to do their work without being told is something that

really does take place over time. But what I wanted to talk about today as we're going

through this is kind of the long term road of building strong godly character. It doesn't

happen overnight but it's repeating things over and over again. No not this, this, no

not this, this. And teaching our children the character quality. The character quality

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