Teach and old dog new tricks

Are you ready for this weeks challenge? My family adopted a sweet, 4 lbs cockapoo puppy this weekend. We are already in love. Its the first dog for my kids so we were explaining to them that we want to start training right away so she doesnt learn bad habits. We cant let her chew on our shoes and instead give her chew toys. And it got me to thinking about how we learn bad habits over the years. It would be much easier if we just didnt start them but alas were human and it happens. But I want to challenge all of us to look at these little bad habits. You know the ones- biting our nails, smoking, interrupting people, telling white lies….. We all do some of these and other bad habits at times. But what if this week we do our best to find something better to do? Can we teach an old dog new tricks?!?

So the challenge this week: Be aware of the small bad habits we do on a regular bases and for this week find a better habit to do instead. Are you up for the challenge?