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We are hoping to get back out there more in 2016, and we would love to come to your area with our Raising Kids With Character <\/a><\/strong>parenting seminar. This seminar is flexible and has been widely received! We love helping parents with parenting\u2014and this seminar lets us do that on a larger scale.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_contact_form admin_label=”Contact Form” captcha=”off” email=”characterinklady@gmail.com” use_redirect=”off” input_border_radius=”0″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_button=”off” button_letter_spacing=”0″ button_use_icon=”default” button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” button_letter_spacing_hover=”0″ saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”5525″] [et_pb_contact_field field_title=”Name” field_type=”input” field_id=”Name” required_mark=”on” fullwidth_field=”off” \/][et_pb_contact_field field_title=”Email Address” field_type=”email” field_id=”Email” required_mark=”on” fullwidth_field=”off” \/][et_pb_contact_field field_title=”Message” field_type=”text” field_id=”Message” required_mark=”on” fullwidth_field=”on” \/] [\/et_pb_contact_form][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1.<\/strong> The seminar can be sponsored by a church, Sunday school, small group, community, homeschool group, etc. It is for any Christian group who wants to learn about character-focused parenting from birth to tweens. (See our tween and teen workshop list here<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> It is flexible. We can accommodate most schedules, including a shorter seminar (Friday night and Saturday morning) or a longer one (Friday night and all day Saturday) or even an extended one if Moms would like to do some efficiency, organizing, or \u201cbaby\/toddler\u201d things during the day on Friday (my personal favorite because arrangment I get to talk to more moms!).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3.<\/strong> It is inexpensive. This is our ministry. Our book sales and cottage classes are for-profit, but these seminars are our \u201cmission field.\u201d We don\u2019t need to make money\u2014we just need to be able to pay our expenses and sell some of our products on tables. Easy peasy. That means that parents will not have to pay a lot to attend (though we do recommend charging something so parents commit to it).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4.<\/strong> The registrations can be set up in multiple ways: (1) Your group can handle the registrations and pay our expenses with your \u201cper person\u201d charge; (2) We can handle the registrations fully on our end; (3) Your group can handle the registrations but scholarship your people and have your group pay our expenses.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5.<\/strong> We are always asked about a minimum number of attendees. We love to speak to hundreds at homeschool conventions, and we would love to get our parenting messages out there to hundreds as well. However, we can usually hold a seminar for as few as thirty attendees.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are a few scenarios (though you can take a look at our full workshop list<\/strong><\/a> if you would like for us to add something, come an extra day or two, or substitute something)<\/p>\n (Session descriptions are found below potential schedules.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday Night <\/p>\n Saturday Morning<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday Night<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saturday Morning<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saturday Afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday Daytime:<\/strong> Any of these options (three to six sessions, depending on half day vs full day\u2014most of these sessions are touched on informally in our podcast episodes<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Friday Night<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saturday Morning<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saturday Afternoon<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Five W\u2019s of Character Training\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n This workshop, the first in our popular \u201cRaising Kids With Character\u201d seminar (though may be used separately, as well), teaches parents the what, who, when, where, why (and how!) of character training in the home. Using Scripture and thirty+ years of parenting experience, the Reishes convince parents in this workshop that it starts with us\u2013and is up to us\u2013to train our children in godly parenting, how and where this takes place (it\u2019s not as elaborate as you might think), and much more!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Parenting Paradigms–<\/strong><\/p>\n How we parent begins with what we believe\u2013what we believe about how children are when they come into this world, whose responsibility child training is, what our role should be in it, what we believe Scripture tells us about parenting, timing and appropriate age of training, empathy in parenting, and much more. What we believe will dictate what we do every single day of our parenting lives.<\/p>\n Find out why and how in this workshop.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Starting Out Right With Babies and Toddlers\u2014 Demanding toddlers become disobedient preschoolers, disobedient preschoolers become surly elementary children, surly elementary children become disrespectful teens, and disrespectful teens become entitled young adults.<\/p>\n What we do in parenting our babies and toddlers makes a huge difference in the success of our parenting in other stages. This workshop focuses on the first four qualities that are essential for parenting babies and toddlers\u2013contentment, cheerfulness, obedience, and submission.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Early Qualities for Preschoolers\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n This workshop takes the first four qualities needed for babies and toddlers\u2013submission, obedience, contentment, and cheerfulness\u2013and builds on those in the life of the four to six year old child. In this workshop, Reishes explain how to apply those in your little one\u2019s life, while raising kids whom others enjoy being around and that older siblings adore! Loving and training these ages are some of the most blessed years of parenting (along with many other years!)\u2013and parenting children with boundaries, love, fun, and biblical concepts makes all the difference in their dispositions, the family\u2019s efficiency and joy, and family unity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Child Training vs Heart Training\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n Something should start to happen in our character training between the ages of eight and ten. This workshop teaches how to transition from child training to heart training-and how the foundational character training plays a role in that transition. How do we get from \u201cputting out fires\u201d in our kids\u2019 behavior to training their hearts for life? Ray and Donna have insights from their thirty+ years of parenting that can help parents move into heart training of their children effectively.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Helping Tweens Grow in Character and Virtue\u2014 Taking tweens and young teens from obedience and submission for the sake of avoiding punishment to genuine respect, self-control, diligence, truthfulness, responsibility, and more can be a daunting task. But it can be done! And we can enjoy those ten to fourteen year olds instead of dreading the next confrontation! This workshop focuses on how to help our children grow in character and virtue because \u201cit\u2019s the right thing to do\u201d\u2013and apply those qualities to their lives for life!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Training Children to Be Diligent Workers \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n RKWC goes beyond a daily chore chart (though that is certainly a part of it) to explain the basics of raising diligent workers in the home. The Reishes have found several keys that have made their children not just \u201cchore doers\u201d but responsible, diligent children at early ages. This session touches on setting up chore schedules, training children in chores, family unity in order to work together well, cautions, and much, much more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Honesty vs. Deceit<\/strong><\/p>\n In this important workshop, the Reishes introduce various scenarios or honesty and deceit and how common things like \u201cjust kidding\u201d or telling \u201chalf truths\u201d lead to more dishonesty. They gives dozens and dozens of important tips for counteracting dishonest habits that develop so easily and quickly in our children when these areas are neglected. They also include how to teach honesty lessons, how to become a \u201cfamily of honesty and uprightness,\u201d and poignant verses to teach our children about God\u2019s expectations of honesty in our lives. This new workshop was born out of the Reishes many talks with families and the struggles they are facing as well as their experiences teaching up to two hundred kids each year in their cottage classes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Handling Character Issues (vs. Heart Issues)<\/strong><\/p>\n So once you have determined the difference between heart issues and character issues\u2014and you understand how to handle those important heart ones, what do you do with chores left undone, bikes left in the driveway, forgetfulness with school papers and assignments, sloppiness, and more? Ray and Donna draw on their thirty-three years of parenting experience to give you solutions to some of these \u201ccharacter issues\u201d that could lead to limited success as teens, college students, and adults.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_contact_form admin_label=”Contact Form” captcha=”off” email=”characterinklady@gmail.com” use_redirect=”off” input_border_radius=”0″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_button=”off” button_letter_spacing=”0″ button_use_icon=”default” button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” button_letter_spacing_hover=”0″ saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”5525″] [et_pb_contact_field field_title=”Name” field_type=”input” field_id=”Name” required_mark=”on” fullwidth_field=”off” \/][et_pb_contact_field field_title=”Email Address” field_type=”email” field_id=”Email” required_mark=”on” fullwidth_field=”off” \/][et_pb_contact_field field_title=”Message” field_type=”text” field_id=”Message” required_mark=”on” fullwidth_field=”on” \/] [\/et_pb_contact_form][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n It\u2019s that time of year already! That time when we start considering where and how often we will travel to speak in the spring and summer. We haven\u2019t been traveling as much the past few years as we have been working hard to first of all revise Character Quality Language Arts (CQLA) (finished […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> It\u2019s that time of year already! That time when we start considering where and how often we will travel to speak in the spring and summer. We haven\u2019t been traveling as much the past few years as we have been working hard to first of all revise Character Quality Language Arts<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (CQLA) (finished four years ago) and now to revise and complete the entire series of Meaningful Composition.<\/em><\/strong><\/a> These two projects have been super expensive and time consuming and left few resources or energy for a lot of traveling and speaking.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> We are hoping to get back out there more in 2016, and we would love to come to your area with our Raising Kids With Character <\/a><\/strong>parenting seminar. This seminar is flexible and has been widely received! We love helping parents with parenting\u2014and this seminar lets us do that on a larger scale.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Here are some details for you:<\/strong><\/p> 1.<\/strong> The seminar can be sponsored by a church, Sunday school, small group, community, homeschool group, etc. It is for any Christian group who wants to learn about character-focused parenting from birth to tweens. (See our tween and teen workshop list here<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p> 2.<\/strong> It is flexible. We can accommodate most schedules, including a shorter seminar (Friday night and Saturday morning) or a longer one (Friday night and all day Saturday) or even an extended one if Moms would like to do some efficiency, organizing, or \u201cbaby\/toddler\u201d things during the day on Friday (my personal favorite because arrangment I get to talk to more moms!).<\/p> 3.<\/strong> It is inexpensive. This is our ministry. Our book sales and cottage classes are for-profit, but these seminars are our \u201cmission field.\u201d We don\u2019t need to make money\u2014we just need to be able to pay our expenses and sell some of our products on tables. Easy peasy. That means that parents will not have to pay a lot to attend (though we do recommend charging something so parents commit to it).<\/p> 4.<\/strong> The registrations can be set up in multiple ways: (1) Your group can handle the registrations and pay our expenses with your \u201cper person\u201d charge; (2) We can handle the registrations fully on our end; (3) Your group can handle the registrations but scholarship your people and have your group pay our expenses.<\/p> 5.<\/strong> We are always asked about a minimum number of attendees. We love to speak to hundreds at homeschool conventions, and we would love to get our parenting messages out there to hundreds as well. However, we can usually hold a seminar for as few as thirty attendees.<\/p> Here are a few scenarios (though you can take a look at our full workshop list<\/strong><\/a> if you would like for us to add something, come an extra day or two, or substitute something)<\/p> (Session descriptions are found below potential schedules.)<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Friday Night \u00a0<\/p> Saturday Morning<\/strong><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Friday Night<\/strong><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Saturday Morning<\/strong><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Saturday Afternoon<\/strong><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Friday Daytime:<\/strong> Any of these options (three to six sessions, depending on half day vs full day\u2014most of these sessions are touched on informally in our podcast episodes<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Friday Night<\/strong><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Saturday Morning<\/strong><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Saturday Afternoon<\/strong><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> The Five W\u2019s of Character Training\u2014<\/strong><\/p> This workshop, the first in our popular \u201cRaising Kids With Character\u201d seminar (though may be used separately, as well), teaches parents the what, who, when, where, why (and how!) of character training in the home. Using Scripture and thirty+ years of parenting experience, the Reishes convince parents in this workshop that it starts with us\u2013and is up to us\u2013to train our children in godly parenting, how and where this takes place (it\u2019s not as elaborate as you might think), and much more!<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Parenting Paradigms--<\/strong><\/p> How we parent begins with what we believe\u2013what we believe about how children are when they come into this world, whose responsibility child training is, what our role should be in it, what we believe Scripture tells us about parenting, timing and appropriate age of training, empathy in parenting, and much more. What we believe will dictate what we do every single day of our parenting lives.<\/p> Find out why and how in this workshop.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Starting Out Right With Babies and Toddlers\u2014 Demanding toddlers become disobedient preschoolers, disobedient preschoolers become surly elementary children, surly elementary children become disrespectful teens, and disrespectful teens become entitled young adults.<\/p> What we do in parenting our babies and toddlers makes a huge difference in the success of our parenting in other stages. This workshop focuses on the first four qualities that are essential for parenting babies and toddlers\u2013contentment, cheerfulness, obedience, and submission.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Early Qualities for Preschoolers\u2014<\/strong><\/p> This workshop takes the first four qualities needed for babies and toddlers\u2013submission, obedience, contentment, and cheerfulness\u2013and builds on those in the life of the four to six year old child. In this workshop, Reishes explain how to apply those in your little one\u2019s life, while raising kids whom others enjoy being around and that older siblings adore! Loving and training these ages are some of the most blessed years of parenting (along with many other years!)\u2013and parenting children with boundaries, love, fun, and biblical concepts makes all the difference in their dispositions, the family\u2019s efficiency and joy, and family unity.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Child Training vs Heart Training\u2014<\/strong><\/p> Something should start to happen in our character training between the ages of eight and ten. This workshop teaches how to transition from child training to heart training-and how the foundational character training plays a role in that transition. How do we get from \u201cputting out fires\u201d in our kids\u2019 behavior to training their hearts for life? Ray and Donna have insights from their thirty+ years of parenting that can help parents move into heart training of their children effectively.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Helping Tweens Grow in Character and Virtue\u2014 Taking tweens and young teens from obedience and submission for the sake of avoiding punishment to genuine respect, self-control, diligence, truthfulness, responsibility, and more can be a daunting task. But it can be done! And we can enjoy those ten to fourteen year olds instead of dreading the next confrontation! This workshop focuses on how to help our children grow in character and virtue because \u201cit\u2019s the right thing to do\u201d\u2013and apply those qualities to their lives for life!<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Training Children to Be Diligent Workers \u2014<\/strong><\/p> RKWC goes beyond a daily chore chart (though that is certainly a part of it) to explain the basics of raising diligent workers in the home. The Reishes have found several keys that have made their children not just \u201cchore doers\u201d but responsible, diligent children at early ages. This session touches on setting up chore schedules, training children in chores, family unity in order to work together well, cautions, and much, much more.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Honesty vs. Deceit<\/strong><\/p> In this important workshop, the Reishes introduce various scenarios or honesty and deceit and how common things like \u201cjust kidding\u201d or telling \u201chalf truths\u201d lead to more dishonesty. They gives dozens and dozens of important tips for counteracting dishonest habits that develop so easily and quickly in our children when these areas are neglected. They also include how to teach honesty lessons, how to become a \u201cfamily of honesty and uprightness,\u201d and poignant verses to teach our children about God\u2019s expectations of honesty in our lives. This new workshop was born out of the Reishes many talks with families and the struggles they are facing as well as their experiences teaching up to two hundred kids each year in their cottage classes.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Handling Character Issues (vs. Heart Issues)<\/strong><\/p> So once you have determined the difference between heart issues and character issues\u2014and you understand how to handle those important heart ones, what do you do with chores left undone, bikes left in the driveway, forgetfulness with school papers and assignments, sloppiness, and more? Ray and Donna draw on their thirty-three years of parenting experience to give you solutions to some of these \u201ccharacter issues\u201d that could lead to limited success as teens, college students, and adults.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p>Contact us here!<\/h3>\n
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