Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Character Matters 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.
Full description- Publisher: Touchstone Books
- Published: 03 February 2004
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: Philosophy & Theory Of Education | School/community Relations & School/home Relations | Family & Relationships | Advice On Parenting
- ISBN 13: 9780743245074 ISBN 10: 0743245075
- Sales rank: 184,095
Full description for Character Matters
Don't Let Our Kids Flunk Life The novelist Walker Percy once observed, "Some people get all As but flunk life." Succeeding in life takes character. In "Character Matters, " award-winning psychologist-educator Thomas Lickona offers more than 100 practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life. Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its 10 essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility. He lays out a blueprint for building these core virtues through a partnership shared by families, schools, and communities. Chapters include: 14 strategies that help kids succeed academically while building character More than a dozen character-building discipline strategies 20 ways to prevent peer cruelty and promote kindness 10 ways to talk to teens about sex, love, and character The culmination of a lifetime's work in character education, this landmark book gives us the tools we need to raise respectful and responsible children, create safe and effective schools, and build the caring and decent society in which we all want to live.
