Description
Parenting for Character Applied is eminently practical. Here you will find a multitude of insights, case studies, points for reflection and practical exercises to work through on your own and as a couple, or with friends. You will focus on ways to improve your family life, and to raise your child to think clearly, choose wisely and love more deeply.
In the process you will discover a thousand ways to tweak your guidance, example, and family culture to be even more joyful and rewarding.
You will notice repeated points of emphasis. We will focus on building up the full range of good habits, on parent-child communication, on giving the right emotional example, on the wholly new demands of raising teenagers. But all of this is at the service of teaching children to love wisely and well. And the surest way for you to teach children to love, is to show on your face all the joy that love brings into your life. This is the art of parenting.
REVIEWS:
"Parenting for Character is the only book I know of that addresses the fundamental issue of character education, the formation of habits. There are exceedingly practical suggestions on how to build habits. Mullins, however, goes beyond guiding the reader on how to help a child acquire good habits or virtues. Each chapter is a rich mix of highly readable explanatory passages, stories, and vivid quotes. Of particular value, however, is the abundance of lists: lists of provocative questions about one’s family life; lists of things to do to establish clear communications with a child; checklists of raising a teenager with character. The book is simply a treasure of wonderful and useful ideas on how to raise good children. Parenting for Character is destined to be a classic."
Kevin Ryan
Founder of the Boston University Centre for the Advancement of Ethics and Character
"I LOVE Parenting for Character. It's just loaded with practical wisdom and a delight to read. We have it on display in our centre."
Thomas Lickona Professor Emeritus of Education
Director of the Centre for the 4th and 5th Rs, State University of New York
Author of How to Raise Kind Kids (Penguin)
