Archive for the ‘12 Habits’ Category
Tray of Items – Fill a tray with 10-15 miscellaneous items that the children would be familiar with {toys, utensils, food items, etc.} There are then two ways to play this game – for older children I would recommend leaving the tray out in plain view during another activity {dinner, school activity, etc.} At a certain point [...]
Our focus this month will be on noticing the needs of others and how those needs could be met. While there will be some needs that the boys will be able to help meet the idea is more that they exercise the ability to pay attention and see others’ needs. I discovered a new {to me} book [...]
The whole “put away what you touch” habit for the month of April has inspired some pretty huge changes, mainly the switch between Paul’s {small} office and the boys {big} bedroom – they now sleep in the smaller of the two rooms and, with the addition of some efficient storage space, it has made a world of [...]
I can’t believe we are almost half way through April and I haven’t posted our monthly habit yet! So sorry for those following along that were waiting for this! In part, it didn’t get posted because we were gone for part of last week and when we were home we were enjoying Paul’s Spring break. [...]
As most of you know, this month we are focusing on the habit of encouraging others. I thought it would be fun to have a month long activity for this habit and since we are trying to be encouraging people I thought making encouraging people as a visual reminder would be fun. At the beginning [...]
This easy Spring craft for kids was inspired when we spotted these cute lollipops at Michael’s Craft Store for .39 cents each. The boys asked if we could buy some for their friends – and given that this month we are focusing on encouraging others I couldn’t very easily say no! So we bought a [...]
I used this object lesson with the boys this week to illustrate to them how much impact a little bit of encouragement can have on a person. In trying to figure out the easiest way to explain it I thought it would translate best through a simple video demonstration. It is really quite simple and [...]
The habit we will be focusing on throughout the month of March is that of encouraging others. I am really looking forward to this as there is so much potential for creativity to explode in their little boy minds as they will be stretched to think about encouraging others in big ways and in small [...]
Throughout this month of focusing on the habit of listening we’re hit upon a few ideas that have seem to have truly resonated with the boys – ideas that are fun, practical and hit their little boy imaginations in a way simply talking to them could never do. I have shared a few of those [...]
The Habit of Listening – Learning Through Serving One day last week when we were anticipating Paul coming home for lunch the boys and I set the table for two, laid out an assortment of foods in the kitchen (including two types of cheese, crackers, chicken salad, blueberries, sprouts, hummus and tortillas), dressed the boys [...]
