How Mental Habits Shape Your Homeschool (and What to Do About It)

We all know habits shape our routines—but have you ever stopped to think about how they shape your thinking?

In this practical and powerful episode, David and Leslie Nunnery dig into the often unseen world of mental habits—those repeated thought loops that quietly drive how we parent, teach, and respond every day. Drawing from research, Scripture, and personal stories, they show how our daily reflexes are formed, how they can be reshaped, and how they impact the atmosphere of our homes more than any curriculum choice ever could.

Key Topics Covered:

Why up to 90% of your day runs on habits you don’t even notice.

How “mental grooves” form in your brain—and why your thoughts naturally follow them.

What Daniel’s prayer life teaches us about training your mind toward thanksgiving and trust.

Why envy, anxiety, and self-doubt take root so easily—and how to replace them with gratitude and truth.

The simple mindset shift that can transform your homeschool, your marriage, and your parenting.

Plus, Leslie shares practical questions to identify negative loops and start building better ones, and David walks through how neuroscience supports what Scripture has been teaching all along about renewing your mind.

You’ll leave this episode with a clear next step: one thought to replace, one habit to rehearse, and one truth to hold onto when life feels heavy.

Action Step: 

Ask yourself this week—What mental habit might be shaping my family without me even realizing it? Then take one small, repeatable step to replace it with a godly one.

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