I am working on some character studies for our family and I wanted to share them with you all as well. I’ve been collecting verses that support issues we’ve had in our household and turned them into a 4 day character study that we’ve been doing each week.
I’ve completed 10 studies, this is the first in the series and is based on arguing, you can click on the image or link below to download a pdf of this study. I will post the rest of the studies weekly.
A Character study: Slow to Anger
Other books required for this study: The Bible (any version will do!)
Each day you will learn a verse, read a story where this sin is illustrated, then discuss the consequences of this sin followed up by the blessings of obedience. I encourage discussion with your children on ways they can help one another to stay free from this sin. Putting these ideas into practice on a daily basis will help them to become habit.
We also do a daily/weekly “Challenge” for each study, so for example the challenge for this week is to “love as brothers & be compassionate”. (Just a forewarning, I’ve found these studies just as much for me as for my kids, and apparently God knew that getting my heart in the right place was a good start to the series.)
I have a sticker sheet for anyone caught making good choices, that’s right “caught making good choices”. I tend to only respond when someone is making bad decisions, and this helps me to focus on the good instead. Whoever has the most stickers at the end of the week gets a prize, and frankly if I think my kids are actually trying their best then everyone gets a prize.
As always if you see any typos or errors please let me know so I can fix them, I appreciate your feedback!
I hope this study blesses your family as it has mine!
This came at the perfect time. Thanks for all you do!!
I love the charecter study idea, you said you have 10 already, where can I find them?? Am I just missing them?Thank you! Amber
AMBER: I will publish 1 each week as we go, I have 10 done, then plan to move onto another series, but I like to go through them before publishing to fix typos etc.ANONYMOUS: I just checked and the file downloaded fine for me. When you click on the link here, it should take you to 4shared. Then click on the big BLUE button that says "DOWNLOAD NOW". Next wait for the countdown clock, once it gets to 0 it will turn into a link that says "DOWNLOAD FILE NOW" click that and then select "SAVE" to your hard drive.
What a great idea! I was just considering writing something like this for my son. And, you have already done it! Thanks you
Erica, THANK YOU! I have been typing up a list of character qualities and trying to come up with a way to integrate them into our family dinner conversations. Thank you for sharing this so I don't have to re-create the wheel! And I agree, isn't it amazing how much God uses our munchkins to teach us! Here we are thinking we're teaching them, but we're learning right along with them!Blessings,
Erica, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for your willingness to share. I have felt led to work on different character traits with our kids and this is truly a blessing. Thank you for sharing!Blessings, Tirzah
We have been having the arguing issue at our house too! I am just thanking the Lord for your blog! You are such an encouragement and help to me!
THANK YOU for honoring my little link-up with such an excellent resource!You rock, you roll- you warm my soul!(Sorry- so cheesy- but I am sincerely grateful…)
This is great! I can't wait for the next ones, I keep checking your site as I don't want to miss it! Thanks for posting!
Hi, Erica,I tried to download this several times tonight, but 4-shared says that this link is not available. Did it expire?