Full name: The Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves

Authors: Linda Kavelin Popov, Dan Popov, John Kavelin Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Parenting Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads OpenLibrary LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780452278103 0452278104

When you witness a small child haul off and smack another child unprovoked, the theory of innate morality seems to lose all validity. Moral education has always been the domain of religion, and Linda Kavelin Popov has culled 52 universal virtues from the world's religions, one for each week of the year. The resulting Family Values Guide is a workbook for the moral education of children that transcends differences of religion or culture. Each week, the book suggests, a family should gather to discuss a different virtue from the book, such as love, generosity, or patience, and the parents then emphasize the virtue for the following days, capitalizing on appropriate moments for education. Contrary to some pop psychology authors, Popov insists that reasonable boundaries be established and maintained for children and that appropriate punishment be meted out when boundaries are crossed. Psychotherapist and president of the Family Values Project, Popov sees the language of values as the key to recognizing their importance in social interaction, and encourages parents to add other values to their own list.Through a collection of fifty-two virtues, one for each week of the year, Popov instructs parents how to teach morals and ethics to their young children, including such values as trust, caring, humility, and generosity. Original." Similar books: Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Meg Meeker The Secrets of Happy Families by Bruce Feiler Making Children Mind without Losing Yours by Kevin Leman Between Parent and Child by Haim G. Ginott Gospel-Powered Parenting by William P. Farley Hints on Child Training by H. Clay Trumbull Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne Parenting With Love And Logic by Foster Cline Hold On to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld How to really love your child by Ross Campbell Give Them Grace by Elyse Fitzpatrick Hands Free Mama by Rachel Macy Stafford Instructing a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp Playful Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie Faith to Foster by T. J. Menn