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		"The Power of Character" featured essay ^Votes:0 JOSEPHSON INSTITUTE OF ETHICS FEATURED ESSAY The Power of Character The Josephson Institute and its CHARACTER COUNTS! project are nonpartisan and nonsectarian and do not necessarily endorse the opinions offered in these essays. Click here to read the currently featured essay: In Defense of Privacy, by Stephen L. Carter The following is one of 41 essays from The Power of Character (Jossey-Bass, 1998), edited by the Josephson Institutes Wes Hanson and Michael Josephson. Help! How Do I Teach Character When I'm Still Questioning My Own? By Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben of Kehillat Israel congregation in Los Angeles has worked and taught in the field of moral education for more than twenty years. He is the founding editor of Compass magazine for Read More Go to Site


		Articles by Dr. Michele Borba ^Votes:0 The Seven Essential Virtues Empathy Conscience Self-Control Respect Kindness Tolerance Fairness The Eight Indispensable Skills of Success Positive Self-Esteem Cultivating Strengths Communicating Problem Solving Getting Along With Others Goal Setting Not Giving Up Caring Dr. Borba welcomes your questions daily on Oprah's Moms Online. MORAL INTELLIGENCE PRO click here The Five Building Blocks of Self-Esteem Security Selfhood Affiliation Mission Competence Parenting Bookmark Children's Bookstore Articles, Resources and Tips to Enhance Moral Growth BUILDING MORAL INTELLIGENCE The Seven Essential Virtues that Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing by Michele Borba Jossey-Bass Publishers: July 2001 Price: $24.95 Hardback original 310 pages, ISBN #078795371 FEATURED ARTICLES by Michele Borba 7 Deadly M Read More Go to Site

		Ideas for Parents ^Votes:0 Curriculum Employment & Licensure Reports & Statistics Publication Sales Education Initiatives Events & Conferences Agency Web Sites Education Directory NC Schools Listing North Carolina Character Education Partnership Building character and citizenship for a brighter tomorrow Ideas for Parents Be a positive role model for your child in actions as well as words. "Put yourself in someone else's shoes" and encourage your child to do the same by practicing sensitivity and empathy. Teach expectations of right and wrong to your children and encourage them to live up to their beliefs even when others do not. Children need limits - set them and insist they be respected. Allow and encourage your child to solve his/her own day-to-day problems. Discuss options and give encouragement but av Read More Go to Site

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		Parenting - With Character-Building in Mind ^Votes:0 Parenting to Build Character Character building is most effective when you regularly see and seize opportunities to: Strengthen awareness of moral obligations and the moral significance of choices (ethical consciousness) Enhance the desire to do the right thing (ethical commitment) Improve the ability to foresee potential consequences, devise options, and implement principled choices (ethical competency) BE CONSISTENT The moral messages you send must be clear, consistent and repetitive. Children will judge your values not by what you say but by what you do and what you permit them to do. They will judge you not by your best moments but by your last worst act. Thus, everything you say and do, and all that you allow to be said and done in your presence, either reinforces or undermines the cr Read More Go to Site

		USATODAY.com - Are you spoiling your kids? ^Votes:0 Home News Main Categories Top News Nation States Washington/Politics World Editorial/Opinion Health & Science Census Offbeat More News Columnists Lotteries City Guides Government Guide Talk Today Money Sports Life Tech Weather Site Web Click here to get the Daily Briefing in your inbox 09/10/2001 - Updated 10:21 PM ET Are you spoiling your kids? By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY Psychologist Dan Kindlon had a chance recently to avoid turning one of his daughters into a material girl and he took it. Julia, then 7, was getting dressed for day camp one day when she realized that she had left her gym shoes at the family's weekend home two hours away. In a matter-of-fact tone, she told her parents they had to go back and get them. Mom suggested that Julia wear her hiking boots for the time be Read More Go to Site

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