Teaching Your Children Values »

One of the greatest gifts you can give your children is a strong sense of personal values. Helping your children develop values such as honesty, self-reliance, and dependability is as important a part of their education asteaching them to read or how to cross the street safely. The values you teach your children are their best protection from the influences of peer pressure and the temptations of consumer culture. With their own values clearly defined, your children can make their own decisions — rather than imitate their friends or the latest fashions. In Teaching Your Children Values Linda and Richard Eyre present a practical, proven, month-by-month program of games, family ctivities, and value-building ecercises for kids of all ages.

Library Journal

This successful abridgment of the recent book ( LJ 3/15/93) focuses on 12 values that parents should encourage in their children: honesty, courage, peaceability, self-reliance, self-discipline, chastity and fidelity, loyalty, respect, love, unselfishness, kindness, and justice. Using a value-of-the-month approach, the Eyres clarify each concept with spirited examples from their lives. Suitable methods of instruction, such as games, family discussions, and awards, are explained, and suggestions for selecting techniques appropriate for preschoolers, elementary-age children, and adolescents are included. Read with warmth by the authors, this program should be made available to parents in most public libraries.-- Linda Bredengerd, Hanley Lib., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Bradford, Pa.