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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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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 grow older. The table below describes the forms that morality ...
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Sharing and Giving Gifts - A Newsletter for Parents of Third Grade Children
What Do You Think? "Look Dad, I got invited to Jeremy's birthday party next Saturday," yells ...
Source: Iowa State University Extension
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Making Wise Choices
Some time ago I had dinner with a good friend and her family. They had a nine- year-old son who decided to stand on ...
Source: Forefront Families
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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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Let Your Kid Play with Fire
Should you let your 7-year-old drive a car? Play with knives? Dismantle your appliances? One expert says yes. Here's ...
Source: Education.com
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The Discipline Tool Kit: Successful Strategies for Every Age
We've all seen them: the out-of-control toddler hurling handfuls of sand at the park; the whiny-voiced 3-year-old ...
Source: Babycenter
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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 ...
Source: Education.com
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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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Caring and Sharing
Learning to care for or share with others can be difficult for young children because they are so focused on ...
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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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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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When Your Teen's New Friend is a Bad Influence
Now that your kid's a teenager, friends matter more than ever. This is great, as long as it's those buddies that bring...
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Power Struggles with Your Kindergartener: How to Curb Dishonesty
Parents (mothers, especially) are infamously good at knowing when their child is lying. Despite your intuition, it can...
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How to Talk About Adoption
November is Adoption Awareness Month! If your child hasn't come across the concept of adoption yet, this is a perfect...
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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....
Source: Education.com
