Good kids, tough choices : how parents can help their children do the right thing

Kidder, Rushworth M.

Book 2010

"A practical analysis and inspiring guide for teaching kids "ethical fitness"Parents are beginning to realize that deficiencies in ethics and character are becoming a big problem among our nation's children. According to the latest data, lying, cheating, and rampant insensitivity to other people are increasingly common. What can parents do? In this book, ethics expert Rushworth Kidder shows how to customize interventions to a child's age and temp...

Item Details & Discovery

Explore Topics & Themes:

Child psychology

Child rearing

Decision making Moral and ethical aspects

Parent and child

Parenting

View technical details & catalog information

ISBN:

9780470547625
0470547626

Edition:

First edition

Description:

x, 258 pages : illustrations

Notes:

"Jossey-Bass."
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index
LSC 19.95

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Three Lenses for Ethical Parenting
How to Use This Book.
What If I Face Ethical Dilemmas of My Own?
1 Raising Kids in Today's Moral Environment.
What the Research Tells Us.
Why Parents Make a Difference.
2 Birth Through Age Four.
Branson and the Gold Coins.
Teaching Responsibility.
Playing According to Your Own Rules.
Loren Wrecks the Train.
3 Ages Five Through Nine.
Teaching Thrift in an Age of Opulence.
Teaching Ethics Through Principles.
Ethics and Peer Pressure.
4 Ages Ten Through Fourteen.
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas.
Zero Tolerance.
Avoiding Bystander Apathy.
Showing Moral Courage.
5 Ages Fifteen Through Eighteen.
Finding the Third Way.
A Sexual Crisis.
Caught Stealing.
Confronting Parental Weakness.
Explaining Divorce.
6 Ages Nineteen Through Twenty-Three.
Counseling, Not Controlling.
Supporting Your Daughter or Saving Your Grandchildren.
The Difference Between Courage and Stubbornness.
7 Conclusion.
How Emotion and Morality Interact.
Using the Moral Toolkit.
Top Ten Tips for Ethical Parenting.
Notes.
Glossary.
Further Reading.
About the Author.
Questions for Discussion.
Index

LCCN:

2010021304

Control Number:

762363

View in Classic Catalog