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“Bad habits make slaves of those who have them. But good habits are like tracks along which our usual behavior runs. This frees us to concentrate on the important choices...Routines form habits. They are frameworks …going to church or reading the Bible and praying can be decried as being just empty habits. But how helpful the habit is! Then, it is the reality of what we make of what we usually do that counts.”
— 17 hours, 43 min ago
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Jasmine
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“”But I don’t want to!” is a cry, not only when I am six, but just as much when I am sixty. We need to quietly and cheerfully push the selfish “I want” out of the center of our lives. This is also a habitual reaction. The question should be not, “What do I want,” but “What do I think is right in this instance?” This habit helps children cope with their wills.”
— 17 hours, 48 min ago
Jasmine
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“If you think that the sick fear of not getting an A grade is a lofty means of motivating the child to excellence, I beg to differ. On the contrary, many children fall into a trap of failure, and they try less and less. Others worry more about the grade than about actually learning anything for its own value or for their personal need.”
— Dec 21, 2025 10:26AM
Jasmine
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“Surely our principle should be to allow the individual to find joy in using his own mind, in learning skills, and in enjoying what others have written (or painted, played, thought; what they did, where they live, etc.”
— Dec 21, 2025 10:24AM
Jasmine
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“Nor should he be enticed to do so because, “It makes me so happy if you do.” He should like and love those who are responsible for his child-life. But he isn’t just to do things to make somebody he cares about happy. One day you won’t be there to see! No, he must learn that he does it because it is right.”
— Dec 21, 2025 10:22AM
Jasmine
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….”this should not be obtained by methods which encroach on the personality of children. A child whose life is shaped by fear does not share the sweet joy of the lamb scampering in the shepherd’s pasture. Therefore, the child is not to be forced to “do his duty” (be it learning a times table or remembering to put muddy boots away) because if he doesn’t all hell will be let loose on him.”
— Dec 21, 2025 10:11AM
Jasmine
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“Charlotte Mason believed that the right habits should be established in childhood. If very small children are helped to do right in the course of their day, surely the habit of right-doing will help them later, when they face bigger and harder things. The first habit, of course, is obedience….”
— Dec 20, 2025 09:51AM
Jasmine
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“We often combine frustrating skill-learning techniques with sawdust books. Try instead this other, Christian approach. Expect high standards, but let them be appropriate to the individual who is progressing at his own rate of development. Make the lesson a short one, so that inattention does not become a habit. Follow the “skill lessons” with a varied diet of mind-food.”
— Dec 20, 2025 07:50AM
Jasmine
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“Our generation is prone to amuse itself with fragmentary information and resources. We flip on the TV for brief programs, and then we think we know about the subjects they dealt with. A few paragraphs in a magazine, and we think we’ve formed an opinion. What is happening so often is that we are merely forming a habit of amusing our interest and then forgetting the fragments. This is not education.”
— Dec 20, 2025 07:17AM
Jasmine
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“TV becomes a sedative, stilling active play, reading, talking, sharing. Planned activities crowd out personal growth and creativity. And the god of money, status, and personal ease and pleasure seeps in everywhere, like a noxious gas.”
— Dec 20, 2025 06:25AM
Jasmine
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“(Matt. 7:9–11). Children ask for bread. Do we give them white gummy glue covered with saturated fat? Do we feed their bodies on any careless prepacked junk that comes into view? Or do we provide them with honest good food? And what about their…”
— Dec 20, 2025 06:21AM
