How to raise kind kids and get respect, gratitude, and a happier family in the bargain
"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 psychologis...
| Main Author: | Lickona, Thomas (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Books,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Why kindness matters
- Does our culture cultivate kindness?
- Kids' capacity for kindness
- and cruelty
- is there from the start
- How to create a positive family culture : 6 key principles
- 10 essential virtues that help kids be kind
- Respect and fairness
- Discipline : what's in your toolbox?
- Family meetings : working together to create a happier family
- Getting control of screens
- How to help your kids develop good habits (and break bad ones)
- Cut the complaining! : 10 ways to teach and practice gratitude
- Using stories to teach kindness and other virtues
- Schools that cultivate kindness
- How to help your kids avoid the dangers of a hypersexualized culture
- and find true love
- Appendix A; Character quotations for the 10 essential virtues
- Appendix B: Books that teach values
- Appendix C; Family projects that foster kindness and purpose.