Habits: The Mother’s Friend

Are you tired of nagging, yelling, bribing, manipulating, or coercing to get your children to behave in a certain way?  Habits: The Mother’s Friend will teach you how you can joyfully and habitually train your children in lifelong skills of habit and ease of self-management.

Habits can be formed or changed in many areas of moral and mental development. It is by using this tool that a mother can mold and shape her children’s character without the task becoming overwhelming or tedious for her or her children. Some of the mental and moral habits addressed in this book are fear, courage, pride, pretense, manners, order, obedience, truth, industry, leisure, and a chapter on special needs with a focus on autism.

Have you admired the mom in that large family who has happy, respectful, and well-behaved children while she actually is content and happy managing the household and teaching at home?  Pam Guenther, a mother of six, is such a mom.  In Habits, she invites you into her own home to share what she’s learned about habit training, to make her own home life run more efficiently and pleasantly.

Contents:

The Mother’s Purpose

Part One: Moral

• Obedience
• Temper and Mood
• Fear and Courage
• Justice and Generosity
• Pride and Pretence
• Truth
• Manners and Order

Part Two: Mental

• Attention to Task
• Activity, Industry, and Leisure

Part Three: School / Instruction

• Homeschool
• Spiritual Disciplines

Part Four: Special Populations

• Infants
• Special Needs / Autism

Appendixes:

• Goal Chart
• Bathroom Wipe-Down Checklist
• Deep Cleaning Schedule
• Weekly Cleaning Schedule
• Chore Chart
• Picture Schedule