In "Why Character Matters," a leader in the character education movement and author of the landmark book, "Educating for Character," Likona now lays out 100 specific strategies that will help parents as well as teachers instill children with the values that will help them lead good and successful lives.
Famed relationships expert John Gray--author or the phenomenal bestseller MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS--has finally given in to his fans' requests and written a book about raising children. In this guide, Gray asserts that all children are born good and reasons that it's the parents' responsibility to help their child grow into a ...
Now available in paperback--William Bennett's #1 bestseller The Book of Virtues, a perfect holiday gift. "(Bennett's) narrative is literary and evocative and will help parents and children meet the challenges in the different stages of life".--The Boston Globe Books.
This wonderful book stresses 52 virtues--one for each week of the year--including trust, caring, humility, generosity, and excellence. Popov instructs parents on how to teach without moralizing and provides guidelines that can be used to gauge whether children have successfully learned each lesson. Illustrations.
For Teachers and Parents of Children to Age 12 Finally, a book that shows you how to teach kids the eight indispensable skills-self-confidence, self-awareness, communication, problem solving, getting along, goal setting, perseverance, and empathy-they'll need for living confident, happy, and productive lives. Filled with step-by-step advice, ...
In this revolutionary guide, a renowned Gestalt therapist explains how the power of Radical Honesty can be used to reduce stress and anxiety, overcome depression, foster passionate and intimate relationships, and more.
While there are many parenting guides on the bookshelves today, "The Confident Child" trains parents in the techniques of "emotional coaching" in raising children "to try, learn, and care."
America's leading thinker on the moral education of children argues persuasively that young people today are seriously demoralized at a time in their lives when they should be full of high expectations and noble spirits. Damon draws on his research and experience to establish guidelines on the moral development of children in the home, school and ...
A guide to the process of writing and sharing an ethical will, a document designed to preserve a lasting legacy of your most cherished personal values. A comprehensive, step-by-step resource, Ethical Wills gently guides us through the process of creating what can be one of the most valuable and cherished documents we leave behind. Clarifying and ...
The bestselling authors of Teaching Your Children Values--parents of nine children themselves--offer a practical, step-by-step handbook for teaching children the most important lesson of all--responsibilty.
This guide to parenting develops each of the 19 couplets of the poem "Children Learn What They Live" into a chapter. It includes how to: nurture a child's sense of self; deal with the pressures of everyday parenting; dispel tension and hostility; and draw out a child's inner resources.
In this history of the pre-Victorian era, Wilson begins with the libertine spirit inspired by Byron, Shelley, and the Romantics; and ends with the rise and eventual victory of stolid middle-class values. The result is a radical tour de force, a brilliant reworking of the pre-Victorian age.
Children tell a variety of lies, from little white lies to boasting and bragging, to the outright concealing of information, and they do so for a number of different reasons. Dr. Ekman explains what motivates children to lie, how lying changes at different ages, and how a child prepares a lie. Dr. Ekman tells parents how they can encourage ...
Using case histories and biblical illustrations, the author attempts to help women understand their husbands. The book aims to solve many of the practical and emotional problems a woman can face in her marriage.
A perfect gift for the holiday season, William Bennett's bestselling The Moral Compass--now available in a trade paperback edition for the first time--"promises to uplift and regenerate readers of all ages" (Crisis).
From his growing-up years in Los Angeles following World War II, James Pratt shares with us 12 lessons he learned from his father that he has found invaluable to his perspective on life today. The title comes from a lie that his father told in order to get into the army during World War II in hopes of saving the world. His father taught him that a ...
Filled with invaluable know-how, this easy-to-follow guide from the authors of the #1 national bestseller Teaching Your Children Values presents practical advice for teaching children how to take a joyful, positive, and optimistic approach to life.
Can marriages and other monogamous relationships suffer as a result of online romance and "cybersex?" This study explores the damage, and offers insight on both patching up real-life relations and eliminating virtual ones.
Dobrin, the leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Long Island and a professor of Humanities at Hofstra University, explains his theory on how to raise considerate and fair children. After first addressing how children develop a moral center, Dobrin then advises parents on how they can help their children become ethically compassionate.
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God's Plan to Protect His People in the Coming Depression
