As I perused this book, I realized that we were even guilty of doing this. Each section has a chart listing basic areas that belong in that section, and then specific skills within that area. Each chart has four columns and they are labeled I , P, M and Comments . In the I column, the parent dates when they Introduce the skill to their child. The P column is designed for the parent to check off when they observe that their child has been progressing in that skill.
M stands for mastery and the parent dates the time when their child showed mastery of the skill.
The Comments column is large enough to write quite a bit. Luke s Lifelong List has some very positive features and some negative ones too. Let's start with the positive. This book comes from a Christian perspective and the lists of attitudes gives a lot of ideas for things we need to cover with our kids. Because this book is designed for the parents' use, even if we disagree with some things we are free to simply ignore them and use the parts of the book that we find helpful.