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Learning Right From Wrong
Editors' Comment Each generation believes they are facing new challenges in raising responsible children. As we start ...
Source: NYU Child Study Center
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Building Your Child's Character
We live in a time when teaching our children to be virtuous is especially challenging. Youngsters are surrounded by ...
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Powerful Parenting: Building Relationships, Instilling Confidence, and Teaching Skills
As parents, you worry about the risks your children face and the choices they will have to make. But if you have a ...
Source: Committee for Children
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Learning to Relate to Others Tip Sheet
“The highest priority of a student is to avoid humiliation at all costs.” – Dr. Mel Levine School is not the ...
Source: All Kinds of Minds
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Raising Confident Kids
It takes confidence to be a kid. Whether going to a new school or stepping up to bat for the first time, kids face a ...
Source: The Nemours Foundation
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10 Tips for Raising Moral Kids
Home is the best school for teaching moral behaviors. Here are 10 parenting tips from Building Moral Intelligence: The ...
Source: A Better Child
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Moral Reasoning and Prosocial Behavior at Different Grade Levels
Most children behave more morally and prosocially as they gro older. The table below describes the forms that morality ...
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Tips for Parents: Raising Girls for Resilience and Optimism
Sylvia Rimm discusses the "C" characteristics that are crucial to success and offers some suggestions for ...
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Five Great Ways to Teach Your Child About Philanthropy
It is never too early to instill philanthropy in a child; yet, teaching them that it is better to give than to receive ...
Source: Charity Navigator
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Twenty Strategies to Help Your Children Develop Good Character
The following 20 suggestions are excerpted from Dr. Helen LeGette’s book, Parents, Kids & Character: ...
Source: College Parents of America
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Is Happiness Overrated?
It's become almost a cultural mantra. Ask parents what they want for their children and the answer is almost ...
Source: Education.com
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Experience History at these Civil Rights Landmarks
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 21 marks the perfect opportunity to explore the history and context of the Civil ...
Source: Education.com
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What Builds Your Child’s Character
We believe that parent-child and teacher-child interactions are some of the best ways that children learn moral ...
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Grooming Good Manners
Teaching good manners helps children learn to act kindly toward others. It can seem like a huge undertaking, but ...
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Make Them Laugh
Make yourself and your child healthier and happier by making sure that humor is part of your daily life. Here are a few ...
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Set Rules and Consequences To Teach Responsibility
Use the Know Kit Cards to help find ways the Friends take on responsibilities.Know Kit CardsAges 3-4 (PDF)Know Kit ...
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How to Talk to Kids About Race
Talking about race doesn't have to be a sticky thing. By approaching it with an honest, patient and matter-of-fact tone,...
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Mine, Mine, Mine! What if Your Child Doesn't Share?
Sharing is a difficult concept for most children, especially given the fact that our culture really doesn't promote...
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Why Kids Cheat and How to Stop It
How can parents keep kids from cheating in a society that seems to stress winning at any cost? Here's what parents can...
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Meet Martin Luther King: the Man and the Message
Take today to celebrate nonviolence, equality, service and justice with your child--ideas that Martin Luther King, Jr....
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How to Talk to Your 5th Grader
Are you and your fifth grader having a hard time coming to an agreement? Is he indecisive? Does he drag his feet or just...
Source: Education.com
