Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent’s life—and an increasingly difficult one in today’s society. Here is the most authoritative book available on this crucial subject, a valuable and sensitive guide for parents who want their children to grow up with lifelong positive values. Based
Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent’s life—and an increasingly difficult one in today’s society. Here is the most authoritative book available on this crucial subject, a valuable and sensitive guide for parents who want their children to grow up with lifelong positive values.
Based on fascinating research, this groundbreaking work by psychologist and educator Dr. Thomas Lickona describes the predictable stages of moral development from birth to adulthood. And it offers you down-to-earth advice and guidance for each stage:
• Seven caring ways to discipline “terrible twos”
• Why your preschooler “lies” and how to handle it
• What to do about a four-year-old’s back talk
• How to handle your seven-year-old’s endless negotiations about what’s “fair”
• Why teens have trouble with peer pressure—and how to help them
• How to talk to your child about drugs, drinking, and sex
• How to help children of any age reason more clearly about what’s right and wrong
PLUS . . . A list of more than one hundred children’s books that teach moral values, and much more.
“An excellent book on a vastly neglected aspect of raising children.”—Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson, author How to Parent, How to Father
“We have been waiting for a book like this for a long time—a readable work that translates a moral development into parents’ language and experience.”—Dolores Curran, author of Traits of a Healthy Family
“Truly integrates a moral development theory into a consistent approach to childrearing. . . Word-of-mouth recommendations from parent to parent may lift it to the level of popularity once held by Dr. Spock’s book on child care.”—Moral Education Forum
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Children need the right stategy at the right time This book was my bible when I was raising my 4 kids. Dr. L.’s tone is always: “you can handle this, maybe not every time, maybe not always perfectly, but you can be successful with your child.” I get tired of the smug “Do it my way and everything will be perfect” undertone I often hear in many parenting books. So not true! Every child and every parent are different.I love that he tells you what behaviors to look for in your child to determine where they are…
Wonderful resource for parents This is a GREAT book. Unlike a lot of child advice books, Dr, Lickona doesn’t espouse a certain disciplinary theory. Instead, he teaches you how children of different ages tend to think, and how they see the world. Kids don’t see things like adults do, and this books helps you to know what is normal for your child based on age ranges and how to help them mentally grow into the next stage. I used this book raising my own kids and have given at least half a dozen as gifts.
Raising Good Children Parents ——read this!It is soooooo user friendly and on target.If you choose to do the best for your child—-then read this book.I wish it was a requirement for all new parents to get one of these books before they take that baby home.It is like a direction manual for those young people:)Put down the remote and video game and parent!!!!The rewards are huge——mine are children with a PhD, a consultant and a pharmacist…