{"id":3192,"date":"2015-07-11T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T14:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2016-10-18T21:40:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T01:40:55","slug":"this-weeks-character-ink-newsletter-july-9-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/this-weeks-character-ink-newsletter-july-9-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Character Ink! Newsletter {July 9, 2015}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Character Ink Newsletter no. 18\" href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/this-weeks-character-ink-newsletter-july-9-2015\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Character Ink Newsletter no. 18\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3807\/19347951129_d00ed896f0.jpg\" alt=\"Character Ink Newsletter no. 18\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Have you subscribed to our weekly newsletters yet?!&nbsp; Here\u2019s a peek at what you\u2019ve missed! You can get weekly newsletters delivered to your inbox by signing up <a href=\"https:\/\/app.convertkit.com\/landing_pages\/114076?v=6\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/a>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Expectations For a Five Year Old\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/265\/18844577323_9fab0f2a70_n.jpg\" alt=\"Expectations For a Five Year Old\" width=\"320\" height=\"232\">I was recently asked what my \u201ceducational expectations\u201d would be with a five year old. Now, this fall marks our thirtieth year of homeschooling. Through the years, we have ebbed and flowed with the trends of homeschooling just like all other long-term homeschoolers. However, there are some things that have always stayed the same for us:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(1)<\/strong> Teach obedience before starting school<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(2)<\/strong> Put relationships above academics<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(3)<\/strong> Put God first, then marriage, then children, then others<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/expectations-for-a-five-year-old\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More!\u2192<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Discerning Between the 4D's of Behavior and Childishness\" href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/discerning-between-the-4ds-of-behavior-and-childishness\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Discerning Between the 4D's of Behavior and Childishness\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/521\/19471376822_5a8ebc9728_n.jpg\" alt=\"Discerning Between the 4D's of Behavior and Childishness\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One way that we like to help parents determine whether a child\u2019s behavior is of a serious nature or whether it is simply childishness that needs training, rewards, more training, follow-through, and consequences to solve it is by using the benchmark of the 4D\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been to our Raising Kids With Character parenting seminar, you have probably heard us describe the importance of determining which behavior a child is having. This is because the behaviors that we call the 4D\u2019s are heart-oriented and more life-affecting than those that are simply childishness such as irresponsibility, laziness, or messiness.<\/p>\n<p>That is, we take the four D\u2019s behavior more seriously and attack it with more intentionality than we would childish behavior that we can train and teach from area<\/p>\n<p>It will help you to be able to discern between the two types of behaviors if you recognize and memorize the 4D\u2019s&#8230; &nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/discerning-between-the-4ds-of-behavior-and-childishness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More\u2192<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=3157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"What Should I Do With a Kindergartener?\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/405\/19278186788_862195b591_n.jpg\" alt=\"What Should I Do With a Kindergartener?\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\"><\/a>Donna Reish, author of character quality language arts and meaningful composition, answers a couple of readers questions about kindergarten. In this podcast episode, she specifically talks about what types of behaviors parents should expect from a four to six&nbsp;year-old child before starting formal academics and the six most important things to focus on first, including obedience, morning routines, chore times, and informal learning. She describes the optimum learning environment and gives insight as to what to look for in readiness to learn to read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Join Donna as she describes some of the best years of parenting. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=3157\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;Listen HERE!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many years ago we were able to go to many homeschooling seminars including the Christian Homeschooling Workshop by Greg Harris. I mentioned before on this blog th<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Homeschool Benefit No. 7 - The Chance to Use Delight-Directed Studies\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/487\/18858105813_9b7b46808a_n.jpg\" alt=\"Homeschool Benefit No. 7 - The Chance to Use Delight-Directed Studies\" width=\"320\" height=\"218\">at we came home from his seminars (basic and advanced) ready to tackle one thing at a&nbsp; time out of that amazing binder of material.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that he taught us were the amazing benefits of using delight directed studies. He said that if we would focus some of our studies on things that our children love, things they were delighted in, things they were interested in, they would learn so much more easily and learning would be more fun.<\/p>\n<p>I was all about waiting for readiness in my children so that they would love school. I was all about building a love for learning in our children. And delight directed studies lined up beautifully with those goals. &nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=3180\" target=\"_blank\">Read More\u2192<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Get the newsletters in your inbox\u2026sign up <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.us1.list-manage2.com\/subscribe?u=9be00f503a9e67d2568a181b4&amp;id=4e9b547841\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>!<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.us1.list-manage2.com\/subscribe?u=9be00f503a9e67d2568a181b4&amp;id=4e9b547841\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2713 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/envelope.png\" alt=\"envelope\" data-wp-pid=\"2713\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/envelope.png 128w, https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/envelope-90x90.png 90w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[565,511,628,634,488,308,82,632],"tags":[716,110,443,473],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Week\u2019s Character Ink! 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