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. |
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