Can you teach a child to be kind? This vital question is taking on a new urgency as our culture grows ever more abrasive and divided. We all want our kids to be kind. But that is not the same as knowing what to do when you catch your son being unkind. A world-renowned developmental psychologist, Dr. Thomas Lickona has led the character education movement in schools for forty years. Now he shares with parents the vital tools they need to bring peace and foster cooperation at home. Kindness doesn’t stand on its own. It needs a supporting cast of other essential virtues—like courage, self-control, respect, and gratitude. With concrete examples drawn from the many families Dr. Lickona has worked with over the years and clear tips you can act on tonight, How to Raise Kind Kids will help you give and get respect, hold family meetings to tackle persistent problems, discipline in a way that builds character, and improve the dynamic of your relationship with your children while putting them on the path to a happier and more fulfilling life.

How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain

Parenting & Relationships

Lickona, Thomas

Parenting

Penguin??Books

Raising Good Children

A handbook for parents on the moral development of children, from preschool to adolescence, discusses such topics as discipline, stages of moral growth, and building positive values and offers guidelines for handling specific problems

Bantam]

Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach.

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Raising Good Children From Birth Though the Teenage Years. How to help your child develop a lifelong sense of honesty, decency and respect for others.

A handbook for parents on the moral development of children, from preschool to adolescence, discusses such topics as discipline, stages of moral growth, and building positive values and offers guidelines for handling specific problems

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Random House Publishing Group

Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent’s life—and an increasingly difficult one in today’s society. Here is the most authoritative book available on this crucial subject, a valuable and sensitive guide for parents who want their children to grow up with lifelong positive values. Based on fascinating research, this groundbreaking work by psychologist and educator Dr. Thomas Lickona describes the predictable stages of moral development from birth to adulthood. And it offers you down-to-earth advice and guidance for each stage: • Seven caring ways to discipline “terrible twos” • Why your preschooler “lies” and how to handle it • What to do about a four-year-old’s back talk • How to handle your seven-year-old’s endless negotiations about what’s “fair” • Why teens have trouble with peer pressure—and how to help them • How to talk to your child about drugs, drinking, and sex • How to help children of any age reason more clearly about what’s right and wrong PLUS . . . A list of more than one hundred children’s books that teach moral values, and much more. “An excellent book on a vastly neglected aspect of raising children.”—Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson, author How to Parent, How to Father “We have been waiting for a book like this for a long time—a readable work that translates a moral development into parents’ language and experience.”—Dolores Curran, author of Traits of a Healthy Family “Truly integrates a moral development theory into a consistent approach to childrearing. . . Word-of-mouth recommendations from parent to parent may lift it to the level of popularity once held by Dr. Spock’s book on child care.”—Moral Education Forum

Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years

Narnian Virtues: Building Good Character With C.s. Lewis (English and Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Pike, Mark A.

Sports & Outdoors

Lutterworth Pr

Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred 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. Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its ten essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility. The culmination of a lifetime’s work in character education from one the preeminent psychologists of our time, 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.

Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Atria Books

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How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain

Raising Good Children

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Raising Good Children

Raising Good Children

Raising Good Children

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years

Narnian Virtues: Building Good Character With C.s. Lewis (English and Spanish Edition)

Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues