Monday, February 6, 2012

Teaching Stewardship of Self

Part 5 of the Stewardship series...

I think the best way to look at stewardship of self is to teach children to govern themselves. What does that mean? It means that children have enough self-control and agency to be able to make correct choices.

The best resource I know of is Nicholeen Peck's Teaching Self-Government. She has a great book that explains her system, and a full-fledged implementation course.

Can your children:
Follow instructions calmly?
Accept a no answer or criticism calmly?
Accept a consequence calmly?
Disagree appropriately calmly?

If not, you need Nicholeen's expertise!

And I need to revisit Nicholeen's expertise!

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