Your Name, a Name of Character
December 31, 2008
I got this idea from my friend Kelly. WHAT A GREAT IDEA! I think we'll do this this evening, what a great way to bring in the new year.
Kelly writes:
One year, we made an acronym from our last name, "Crawford". Each letter stood for a character trait that we wanted to emulate. My husband went over them thoroughly with the children, and our reminder was, "Are you a CRAWFORD?" Of course the traits came to mind. C stood for "Christ-like", R stood for "Responsible, and so forth. This was a really good way for us to put abstract concepts into tangible form.
So I am proposing a challenge; can you and your family create an acronym using your last name and character traits? If you need a little inspiration, HERE is my favorite resource for character building information. If you choose to do this let all of us know your results, it may encourage someone else. 
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Check in tomorrow to see what we come up with.
Are You a Brodock?
- B
- R
- O
- D
- O
- C
- K
Topics: Teaching Them Well | 7 Comments »
Comments (7)
Hi,
I just read your latest e-newsletter and it was wonderful! I was inspired. I’ve printed off this idea and I’m hoping to work on it tonight as a family.
Thanks so much for all the inspiration.
Thank you Lori. Let us know what you come up with!
Kathy
Me again…we made our character list! I blogged about it here: http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/LoriLynn/638541/ I directed readers back to this (your) blog post. We are LYDELLs Loyal, Yare, Diligent, Excellent, Loving and Leaders
Love the idea! Thanks for sharing!
rixja in Florida
I have been working on Character notebooks for both my boys. I think this would work right into that. Thank you!
Val
What an awesome idea. Hubby and I are going to do this with the kids and I will post it on my blog! Happy New Year!
My girls and I are trying to get this going..but having trouble coming up with an N. The girls plan on doing their whole name, and Vannan is quite overwhelmed with all of her N’s! So far we came up with NOW and Nice. Other letters are Respectful, Obedient, Dilligent, Examples.
We had a lot of fun with it. I hope it carries through the year!