DescriptionChildren don't fail, the adults around them do - and it is up to us to light the candle of excellence within each one we know and love, begins Marva Collins, one of America's foremost educators, in her important work, Values . This practical guide is for those of us who strive to be role models, who want to know the important values, live them, and teach them to our children. In the tradition of recent best sellers by Marion Wright Edelman and Hillary Clinton, Collins provides dozens of games, exercises, poems, and daily proverbs to help encourage in our families values such as kindness, courage, determination, faith, confidence, and responsibility. Taken from her superbly effective teaching and inspirational methods, these techniques are essential if both we and our children are to lead successful and meaningful lives.
DescriptionAccording to John Bradshaw, our emotional intelligence means far more to human happiness than IQ. In this program, Bradshaw, a leader in the contemporary self-help movement, introduces a new understanding of how to foster moral character, both for yourself and your children. Drawing both on ancient sources and his own expertise, Bradshaw outlines the 4 cardinal virtues that we urgently need: prudence (or emotional intelligence), justice, temperance (self-restraint), and fortitude (courage). Bradshaw believes that prudence is by far the most important of these virtues, and his groundbreaking presentation explains what it means, how it can be achieved, and why it is the foundation of our ethical character.
DescriptionIt has never been more challenging to be a parent - or more hazardous to be a child. Children don't come with instructions, but Ron Hutchcraft's Five Needs Your Child Must Have Met at Home provides a practical road map for raising stable children in an unstable world. He discusses the 5 critical needs of every child: the need for a secure self, honest sexual answers, satisfying love, stable authority, and spiritual reality, and gives parents valuable, surefire tips for meeting all of these needs. Whether you're brand-new parents or have a house full of teenagers, Hutchcraft shows you how to create a home front that will help your kids grow up to become thriving adults.
DescriptionI don't know about you, but I'm troubled by a lot of what I see and hear in America's heartland. John Kasich calls it like he sees it. A former long-time U.S. congressman, a respected author, and popular television host, Kasich has been around the neigh…
DescriptionHow do we build strong families in a world that threatens to tear the very fabric of the family apart? This guide provides parents with a 3-step program to improve family communication and give children a sense of consistency and security. These simple steps are: a family legal system, a family economy, and family traditions. The plan allows parents significant opportunities to praise and reward their children, while promoting open communication. Linda and Richard Eyre, authors of the No. 1 national best seller Teaching Your Children Values, have 9 children of their own.
DescriptionHere's an approach that can make a genuine difference in the quality of your life and in the lives of those you love. Dr. Laura Schlessinger delivers a witty, wise, and workable moral philosophy based on the principle of personal responsibility. With a lively, pull-no-punches style, she takes on the moral dilemmas of our time, and demonstrates in no uncertain terms that personal values are always our own responsibility, and that choosing not to honor them actually compounds unhappiness. Finally, she explains that by disciplining self-indulgence and rising above temptation, we can discover the infinite pleasure, the true happiness, of the moral high ground.
