What could you give your children that would make each day easier for them for the rest of their lives?

Money is an obvious answer that comes to mind.

Yet money can make life more difficult at times, more complicated,

and it can unexpectedly fly away, like an eagle, as Proverbs tells us. I think the answer is good habits.

When we intentionally help our children form good habits, we are giving them a gift that

will make each day easier for the rest of their lives. How? Let's talk about it. Welcome to the Simply Charlotte

Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. Charlotte Mason wrote, there are few parents who would not labor

diligently if for every month's labor they were able

to endow one of their children with a large sum of money.

But in a month, a parent may begin to form a habit in his child of such value that money

is a baguettelle by comparison.

Parents and children, page 173. A baguettelle by comparison. Parents and Children, page 173.

A baguettelle is a thing of little importance, a trifle.

When you compare the value of money to the value of good habits, good habits will come out

the winner.

And here's why, almost half of the actions that we do and even the thoughts that we think

every day are habits that we formed, either good or bad.

We don't realize how much we are creatures of habit because once a habit is set up, we stop

focusing on it. And when that habit is set up, we stop focusing on it.

And when that habit is disrupted, it increases our stress level.

You probably have a morning routine that you go through every day when you wake up.

You get out of bed on the same side every morning.

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