Richard Eyre, Linda Eyre

Teaching Your Children Values

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The #1 bestseller for parents of children from two years old to the teenage y ears, this hands-on approach to teaching honesty, respect, and other important values features sound advice and easy-to-do exercises appropriate to each age group.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchstone Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 237g
• ISBN-13: 9780671769666
• ISBN-10: 0671769669
• Artikelnr.: 21376927

Autorenporträt

Richard and Linda Eyre are writers, educators, and public speakers on topics such as parenting, life-balance, and family-strengthening. They have spoken before the American Bar Association, the AARP, the American Dental Association, executives at Fortune 100 Companies like Disney and Merck, and many more. Richard and Linda are the authors of more than two dozen books, including How to Talk to Your Child About Sex, Empty-Nest Parenting, The Entitlement Trap, Teaching Your Children Joy, and the #1 national bestseller Teaching Your Children Values.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Introduction: Why? When? Where? Who? What? and How?
Why?
Living by certain tried-and-proven standards is the best route to personal
happiness as well as to a stable and productive society.
When?
Values should be taught to children of all ages -- with differing agendas
and changing emphasis as children mature.
Where?
Values are best taught in the home.
Who?
Parents are the crucial exemplars and instructors.
What?
Each parent must decide which values to teach. This book is a menu from
which to choose and a teaching system that will help with whatever values
parents select.
How?
There are some methods especially well suited to teaching values to
preschoolers. Other methods work best for elementary ages, and still others
are effective for adolescents.
VALUES OF BEING
Month 1: Honesty
...with other individuals, with institutions, with society, with self...the
inner strength and confidence that is bred by exacting truthfulness,
trustworthiness, and integrity
Month 2: Courage
...daring to attempt difficult things that are good...strength not to
follow the crowd, to say no and mean it and influence others by it...being
true to convictions and following good impulses, even when they are
unpopular or inconvenient...boldness to be outgoing and friendly
Month 3: Peaceability
...calmness, peacefulness, serenity...the tendency to try to accommodate
rather than argue...the understanding that differences are seldom resolved
through conflict and that meanness in others is an indication of their
problem or insecurity and thus of their need for your understanding...the
ability to understand how others feel rather than simply reacting to
them...control of temper
Month 4: Self-Reliance and Potential
...individuality...awareness and development of gifts and
uniqueness...taking responsibility for own actions...overcoming the
tendency to blame others for difficulties...commitment to personal
excellence
Month 5: Self-Discipline and Moderation
...physical, mental, financial self-discipline...moderation in speaking, in
eating, in exercising...the controlling and bridling of one's own
appetites...understanding the limits of body and mind...avoiding the
dangers of extreme, unbalanced viewpoints...the ability to balance
self-discipline with spontaneity
Month 6: Fidelity and Chastity
...the value and security of fidelity within marriage and of restraint and
limits before marriage...the commitments that go with marriage and that
should go with sex...a grasp of the long-range (and widespread)
consequences that can result from sexual amorality and infidelity
VALUES OF GIVING
Month 7: Loyalty and Dependability
...to family, to employers, to country, church, schools, and other
organizations and institutions to which commitments are made...support,
service, contribution...reliability and consistency in doing what you say
you will do
Month 8: Respect
...for life, for property, for parents, for elders, for nature, and for the
beliefs and rights of others...courtesy, politeness, and
manners...self-respect and the avoidance of self-criticism
Month 9: Love
...individual and personal caring that goes both beneath and beyond loyalty
and respect...love for friends, neighbors, even adversaries...and a
prioritized, lifelong commitment of love for family
Month 10: Unselfishness and Sensitivity
...becoming more extra-centered and less self-centered...learning to feel
with and for others...empathy, tolerance, brotherhood, sensitivity to needs
in people and situations
Month 11: Kindness and Friendliness
...awareness that being kind and considerate is more admirable than being
tough or strong...the tendency to understand rather than
confront...gentleness, particularly toward those who are younger or
weaker...the ability to make and keep friends...helpfulness, cheerfulness
Month 12: Justice and Mercy
...obedience to law, fairness in work and play...an understanding of
natural consequences and the law of the harvest... a grasp of mercy and
forgiveness and an understanding of the futility (and bitter poison) of
carrying a grudge
Postscript
HOMEBASE: a national organization of parents who share common concerns,
ideas, and objectives as well as values. What the organization is and how
to get involved
Index