Our popular workshop on the power of good habits in your home school. In just an hour you will be up and running with the basic principles and practical tips of instilling good habits. Couple this workshop with the Laying Down the Rails complete reference book to get the whole picture.

• Based on our Best-selling Book—Receive a quick overview of the basic concepts from Laying Down the Rails: A Charlotte Mason Habits Handbook.
• Quick—In an hour Sonya will walk you through the basic principles of habit training, lots of real-life examples, an overview of Charlotte Mason habits, and practical how-tos for the top three habits.
• Encouraging—Find out how cultivating good habits now will benefit both you and your child.
• Practical—Learn why nagging doesn’t work and how to use effective techniques to motivate your child to develop a good habit.
• Motivating—Discover The Top Three habits (attention, obedience, truthfulness) and walk away with the keys to instilling them.

Additional Products:

Laying Down the Rails
Laying Down the Rails for Children
Laying Down the Rails for Yourself
Laying Down the Rails Workshop Audio CD

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Our popular workshop on the power of good habits in your home school. In just an hour you will be up and running with the basic principles and practical tips of instilling good habits. Couple this workshop with the Laying Down the Rails complete reference book to get the whole picture.

• Based on our Best-selling Book—Receive a quick overview of the basic concepts from Laying Down the Rails: A Charlotte Mason Habits Handbook.
• Quick—In an hour Sonya will walk you through the basic principles of habit training, lots of real-life examples, an overview of Charlotte Mason habits, and practical how-tos for the top three habits.
• Encouraging—Find out how cultivating good habits now will benefit both you and your child.
• Practical—Learn why nagging doesn’t work and how to use effective techniques to motivate your child to develop a good habit.
• Motivating—Discover The Top Three habits (attention, obedience, truthfulness) and walk away with the keys to instilling them.

Books in Series

Laying Down the Rails
Laying Down the Rails for Children
Laying Down the Rails for Yourself
Laying Down the Rails Workshop Audio CD
Laying Down the Rails Workshop DVD

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“Many adults face daily struggles because no one took the time and effort to help instill good habits in their lives when they were young. If you are one of those struggling adults, or if you simply want to keep growing by laying down new rails toward other good ends in your life, this book is for you.” — Sonya Shafer

Discover how habits are

• like railroad tracks, making your days run smoother and easier.
• a powerful lever, enabling you to do things you never thought you could.
• like a well-trained horse, helping you overcome your natural tendencies.
• the result of conflict, teaching you the secrets of strengthening your willpower.
• a parent’s business, pointing out how habit-training yourself is different from habit-training your child.
• little hammers, shaping and moulding who you are becoming.
• a thing of now, encouraging you to start today!

Related Products:

Laying Down the Rails
Laying Down the Rails for Children
Laying Down the Rails Workshop Audio CD
Laying Down the Rails Workshop DVD

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This companion to the award-winning book, Laying Down the Rails, expands on the principles of good habits with a practical how-to guide and action plan to use with your children. It is filled with more than 400 pages of classic stories and Bible passages, beautiful poems, life activities, inspiring quotations—living ideas that will nestle into your children’s minds and motivate them toward the habits of good character.

With Laying Down the Rails for Children, you will

• Feed minds—Enjoy classic stories, poems, Bible passages, and powerful quotations that feed the mind with wonderful ideas centered around each habit. All of the 60+ habits explained in Laying Down the Rails are covered.
• Inspire hearts—Discuss and practice practical ways to apply those motivating ideas in everyday life. The gentle lessons include ideas for all ages.
• Encourage action—Outline a personal plan for your family in the Parent Prep section of each habit. Cross references, guiding thoughts, and helpful reminders are provided along with lots of room to jot notes.
• Build habits—Give focus and motivation to the whole family as you work on your selected habit. Laying Down the Rails for Children offers enough companion material for many years of habit training!

Start laying down the rails of good habits in your home today and see what a difference it can make!

Note: The printed version of Laying Down the Rails for Children comes as a two-book set for easier handling.

Additional Products:

Laying Down the Rails
Laying Down the Rails for Yourself
Laying Down the Rails Workshop Audio CD
Laying Down the Rails Workshop DVD

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Here, compiled into one volume, are all the habits Charlotte mentioned in her writings with her thoughts and suggestions for cultivating each one. This work also includes Charlotte’s help for breaking bad habits, hundreds of inspiring quotes, and lots of practical tips.

• Complete—Details more than fifty CM habits with their corresponding passages from Charlotte’s writings, as well as her thoughts on the importance of habits.
• Practical—Presents Charlotte’s writings in bite-size chunks with summary statements and quick personal review questions. Modern-day examples offer additional insight into applying CM principles today.
• Organized—Arranges all the habits into five main categories: decency and propriety habits, mental habits, moral habits, physical habits, and religious habits.
• Handy—Provides a Habits Checklist to help you track your child’s and your own progress in developing good habits.
• Encouraging—Motivates and inspires you with wonderful quotes from Charlotte Mason and many other great men and women of history, like Helen Keller, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, C. S. Lewis, Thomas Edison, and more!
• Easy to Use—Acts as a quick and easy reference book with an Index that lists all the habits and the pages on which they are mentioned.

Books in Series:

Laying Down the Rails for Children
Laying Down the Rails for Yourself
Laying Down the Rails Workshop Audio CD
Laying Down the Rails Workshop DVD

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