{"id":26,"date":"2014-07-29T20:18:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T00:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2015-05-27T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T19:26:31","slug":"character-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/character-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Character Ink"},"content":{"rendered":"
Character Ink (formerly Training for Triumph) offers many services and products to Christian families, homeschoolers, and people who desire to (1) Raise children in a Christ-focused home; (2) Disciple their teens and young adults; (3) Learn language arts and writing with meaningful materials in a Directed Writing Approach; (4) Learn more about homeschooling, home management, and child training from a thirty-year veteran of homeschooling; and (5) Learn grammar, writing, and usage painlessly through our materials, blogs, and Facebook pages.<\/p>\n
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Take a look at what we do below\u2014and contact us to learn more!<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cRaising Kids With Character\u201d Christian parenting seminar\u2014available in four, six, eight, or ten session formats! For churches, parenting classes, homeschool groups, conventions, and more!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Ray and Donna enjoy helping homeschoolers with parenting, marriage, homeschooling, language arts, writing, family life, and more!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Ray, Donna, and Joshua enjoy speaking to groups at homeschooling conventions and have over fifty topics to choose from, including fathers, mothers, parenting from toddlers to teens, character training, how to teach (reading, writing, English, speech, debate, history, literature, and more), study skills, home management, marriage, reaching your children\u2019s hearts, organizing, and much more!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Donna explains her three writing and language arts programs at homeschool conventions: Character Quality Language Arts<\/em>, Meaningful Composition<\/em>, and Really Writing<\/em> (ebooks–coming out fall\/winter 2014\/2015).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Ray and Donna enjoy speaking together in their \u201cRaising Kids With Character\u201d parenting seminar (for Christian parents) as well as at homeschooling conventions and their homeschooling workshops.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Ray and Donna Reish, directors and founders of Character Ink, write, speak, and teach at their \u201ccottage classes\u201d to test Donna\u2019s books, parenting seminars, small groups, and homeschooling workshops.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Joshua enjoys writing new Meaningful Composition<\/em> books with Donna, teaching over one hundred \u201ccottage class\u201d students each semester, and speaking at homeschooling conventions with his parents or on his own. Check out his speaking topics and cottage class offerings!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Ray and Donna enjoy helping parents raise and reach the hearts of their teens in their homeschooling workshops (\u201cReaching the Heart of Your Teen,\u201d \u201cHomeschooling Through High School,\u201d \u201cWhat Your Teen Needs From You,\u201d \u201cWhat Your Wife and Children Need,\u201d and more!) as well as in their \u201cRaising Kids With Character\u201d parenting seminar (non-homeschool-specific or homeschool-specific version).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Meaningful Composition<\/em>, our composition-only Christian writing series, covers grades two through twelve (see specific titles for availability) and teaches students how to write using Character Ink\u2019s \u201cDirected Writing Approach.\u201d Check out our two week samples to see how your student can learn to write well\u2014and enjoy the process!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Character Ink\u2019s writing methods, from our \u201cDirected Writing Approach\u201d to our signature \u201cChecklist Challenge\u201d for editing papers to our \u201cOverview Source Method\u201d for research writing, will have your student writing amazing papers in no time! Check out our Character Quality Language Arts\u00a0<\/em>samples, our Meaningful Composition<\/em> samples, and our new Really Writing\u00a0<\/em>ebooks (non-religious shorter writing books)!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Our Christian parenting book, The Well-Trained Heart<\/em>, explains how we discovered a heart-training method for raising children, while instilling character qualities into their lives. Check out our first chapter!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Character Quality Language Arts<\/em> (CQLA) is our anchor homeschool product. Four levels of books, covering\u00a0grades two through twelve, each 1200 to 1500 page work-text provides all of your student\u2019s language arts needs (copy work, vocabulary, spelling, editing, outlining, writing, grammar, usage, dictation, and more) in one book!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Ray and Donna love to speak to married couples about the parallels of ballroom dancing and marriage in their sessions called “Dancing With Your Star–Insights From the Dance of the Ballroom to the Dance of Marriage”!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Students engage in lively discussions in many of Joshua’s \u201ccottage classes,\u201d including literature, world history, US history, economics, government, apologetics, speech, and debate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n