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You CAN Can – Six Tricks!
Here is Part 2 of this series, where it begins to get interesting! 🙂
You CAN Can!
Thought I’d resurrect this past series on home canning, to help answer some recent questions . . .
Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgia
Nostalgia: homesickness, reminiscence, wistfulness, longing, melancholy…
I miss my grandmother. It’s easy to see it in my writings. I’ve always missed her. I copy her. I want to grow up to be like her.
That’s why I do what she did. In this modern world I do home canning.
When I see these beauties, it satisfies my longing like few other things do. I may be crazy, but I’m happy.
Are you?
Weekly Photo Challenge: Companionable
Click “Undo” – 5
Hi! We’re discussing how to reclaim a nearly lost child, here. If you’d like easy access, Part 1 appears here.
And now, on to the finale:
Seventh, do not stop encouraging him. Of course, you must mark wrong answers, but you must also show him what is right about his work.
Is his handwriting improving? Tell him.
Is he missing fewer math problems? Tell him.
Is his work progressing faster since he found new resolve? Tell him.
He cannot measure himself by his classmates anymore (and that is a very good thing) so your recording of his successes, however small they may seem to you, will mean much to him.
Eighth, touch him. He may be a touch-me-not, but you can pull rank.
Tell him, “You may not like lots of cuddles, but you are my child and I’d like to know whom else I can hug!”
Scientists say that loving touch works like vitamins for children and that children who receive pats and hugs are measurably smarter and healthier, even grow taller, than those who do not. His teachers probably feared that it was illegal to supply this for him, but now is different.
The home-schooled student truly does have every advantage.
These advantages are the reason we do this. As we begin to point our child in the way he should go, we can know that we are giving him the advantage that lasts forever.
Photo credit: (2008–09 Fenerbahçe S.K. season) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Habit Training in Children
What a great confirmation of what I always suspected!
When I first heard the term ‘habit training’ as I was exploring the Charlotte Mason method of education, I thought to myself, “Hmmm. That’s an interesting way to put it.” I already knew the importance of child training — that a child left to himself is a disgrace. (Proverbs 29:15 NIV) I had just never thought of it as habit training.
Why Habit Training
Habits are inevitable. We really are creatures of habit. The question is not whether we are forming habits, but rather what kind of habits. Without trying, we easily slip into the behavior and thought patterns that come most naturally to us. As we do them more and more, they become a well-worn path in our minds, and we behave and think in those ways subconsciously.
All this is a good thing to a certain degree. If we had to stop and deliberate about every little thing we…
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