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Category: Principles of True Education
Create A Christian Character Traits Unit Study
Creating a Christian character traits lapbook would make an excellent Bible-based unit study or special activity-based worship series for your family. The Character lapbook page at Homeschool Share has some great ideas and printables to get you started. Homeschool Helper Online also has Character Studies resources. Pick and choose from among these free resources to create a study that suits your family’s needs.
Motivation Monday
“Praise the children when they do well, for judicious commendation is as great a help to them as it is to those older in years and understanding. Never be cross-grained in the sanctuary of the home. Be kind and tenderhearted, showing Christian politeness, thanking and commending your children for the help they give you.”
Manuscript 14, 1905.
No Fool
Excerpt from martyred missionary Jim Elliot’s journal: “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
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Motivation Monday
“God has a tender regard for the children. He wants them to gain victories every day. Let us all endeavor to help the children to be overcomers. Do not let offenses come to them from the very members of their own family. Do not permit your actions and your words to be of a nature that your children will be provoked to wrath. Yet they must be faithfully disciplined and corrected when they do wrong.”
Manuscript 47, 1908
Something to Consider
Are you putting as much time and attention into your child’s spiritual growth as you are into his/her academic growth?
Motivation Monday
“Parents should keep ever before their minds the object to be gained—the perfection of the characters of their children. Those parents who educate their children aright, weeding from their lives every unruly trait, are fitting them to become missionaries for Christ in truth, in righteousness, in holiness. He who in his childhood does service for God, adding to his “faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity” (2 Peter 1:5-7), is fitting himself to hear and to respond to the call, “Child, come up higher; enter the higher school.”
Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, Page 162
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