How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain

How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain

by Thomas Lickona
How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain

How to Raise Kind Kids: And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain

by Thomas Lickona

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Overview

Can you teach a child to be kind?

This vital question is taking on a new urgency as our culture grows ever more abrasive and divided.
 
We all want our kids to be kind. But that is not the same as knowing what to do when you catch your son being unkind.  A world-renowned developmental psychologist, Dr. Thomas Lickona has led the character education movement in schools for forty years. Now he shares with parents the vital tools they need to bring peace and foster cooperation at home. Kindness doesn’t stand on its own. It needs a supporting cast of other essential virtues—like courage, self-control, respect, and gratitude. 

With concrete examples drawn from the many families Dr. Lickona has worked with over the years and clear tips you can act on tonight, How to Raise Kind Kids will help you give and get respect, hold family meetings to tackle persistent problems, discipline in a way that builds character, and improve the dynamic of your relationship with your children while putting them on the path to a happier and more fulfilling life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143131946
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/10/2018
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 1,154,823
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

DR. THOMAS LICKONA is a developmental psychologist and longtime professor of education whose eight books on character education include Raising Good Children and Educating for Character. A past president of the Association for Moral Education, he received the “Sandy” Award for Lifetime Achievement in Character Education.

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This a book about kindness—how to teach it to your children, foster it at home, and spread it beyond your immediate family. You may have picked it up because you are just starting out as a parent and want to do everything you can, from the outset, to nurture kindness in your child. Or you may feel you have a child who isn’t kind—or isn’t as kind as you want them to be—and you’d like to try to change that. You may feel that all too often your family’s interactions—between adults, parent to kid, and among the kids themselves—are not as respectful as you’d hope. You’d like to see more cooperation and less complaining.
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Table of Contents

Dedication xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Author's Note xvii

Introduction xix

Chapter 1 Why Kindness Matters 1

Chapter 2 Does Our Culture Cultivate Kindness? 14

Chapter 3 Kids' Capacity for Kindness-and Cruelty-Is There from the Start 30

Chapter 4 How to Create a Positive Family Culture: 6 Key Principles 41

Chapter 5 10 Essential Virtues That Help Kids Be Kind 69

Chapter 6 Respect and Fairness 85

Chapter 7 Discipline: What's in Your Toolbox? 100

Chapter 8 Family Meetings: Working Together to Create a Happier Family 134

Chapter 9 Getting Control of Screens 149

Chapter 10 How to Help Your Kids Develop Good Habits (and Break Bad Ones) 168

Chapter 11 How to Talk About Things That Matter 181

Chapter 12 Cut the Complaining! 10 Ways to Teach and Practice Gratitude 203

Chapter 13 Using Stories to Teach Kindness and Other Virtues 212

Chapter 14 Schools That Cultivate Kindness 225

Chapter 15 How to Help Your Kids Avoid the Dangers of a Hypersexualized Culture-and Find True Love 236

Appendix A Character Quotations for the 10 Essential Virtues 267

Appendix B Books That Teach Virtues 275

Appendix C Family Projects That Foster Kindness and Purpose 279

Notes 283

Index 297

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