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The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have: The Hyde School Program for Character-Based Education and Parenting

Malcolm Gauld, Laura Gauld

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In this results-driven era of over-zealous soccer parents and SAT boot camps for kids, The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have offers parents and teachers a fresh and compelling message: a child's character is more important than his or her achievements. The authors are a teacher at and the CEO of the Hyde Schools, a group of private schools dedicated to character development and family growth. The Gaulds leverage their experiences to create a wise and workable manual for balancing character, achievement, and purpose in family life.

The book sharply contrasts "achievement culture" with "character culture" by providing 10 priorities for the development of a child's moral fiber. These include valuing "truth over harmony," "attitude over aptitude," and "principles over rules." Each priority is explored via crisp commentary, vivid stories from Hyde parents and students, family exercises, activities, and journaling assignments. One chapter describes ways for parents to explore their attraction to the achievement bias of our culture. This is a practical and persuasive book--one that will convince readers of the authors' credo: "Character is inspired, it is not imparted." --Barbara Mackoff

Stupid Things Parents Do To Mess Up Their Kids: Don't Have Them If You Won't Raise Them

Laura Schlessinger

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Following her previous New York Times bestsellers, Dr.Laura Schlessinger, the conscience of talk radio, now addresses an issue near and dear to her heart: the stupid things parents do to mess up their children. Never one to shy away from tough truths, Dr. Laura marshals compelling evidence for the widespread neglect of America's children and convincingly condemns the numerous rationalizations to excuse it. These are just a few of her hard-hitting points:

• Don't Have Them If You Won't Raise Them: "The cavalier manner in which our society treats child care, not as a matter of intimacy and love, but as a matter of convenience and economics, is deeply destructive to our children's sense of attachment, identity, and importance."
• Dads Need Not Apply: "Single motherhood may be more acceptable to society, but it is not acceptable to children; nor is it in their best interest."
• Brave New Baby: "In our society, reproductive freedom means anyone can decide to create a life by any means with no, and I mean no, consideration of what is in the best interest of that new human being."
• Spare the Rod: "Children without discipline often become adults with tempertantrums, defiance, rage, depression, anxiety, poor school and work adjustment, drug and alcohol abuse."

Stupid Things Parents Do to Mess Up Their Kids covers all aspects of parenting and also tackles such cultural and societal concerns as abortion, modern sexuality, drug and alcohol use, violence, discipline, and a child's right to privacy.

Children Learn What They Live

Dorothy Law Nolte

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Since its publication in 1954, Dorothy Law Nolte's inspirational and educational poem, Children Learn What They Live has been published worldwide, translated into 10 languages, taught in parenting and teaching courses, distributed in doctors offices, and printed on posters and calendars. In Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values, authors Nolte, a teacher and lecturer on family life, and Rachel Harris, Nolte's friend and teaching associate, have taken the classic poem and fleshed it into a small gem of a book. The expanded version maintains the grace and wisdom of the original, yet adds significant insight into the process of encouraging values through example. "If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn," begins the poem (and the book), and so Nolte and Harris suggest effective ways to avoid or prevent constant criticism. As a set of guiding principals, as teaching tools, or as gentle reminders, Nolte and Harris's approach to teaching values to children encapsulates the best in parenting wisdom. --Ericka Lutz

Emily Post's The Gift of Good Manners: A Parent's Guide to Raising Respectful, Kind, Considerate Children (Emily Post)

Peggy Post, Cindy Post Senning

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A tad disappointed 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I am a huge Emily Post fan as everyone knows. I got this book to start preparing for our baby that is on the way.

I had hoped for more specific information. For instance there are only two areas that cover grandparents in the book.

There is great information in the book. But, after finishing it I am still searching for another book to give me more direct answers to questions that never got answered in this book.

I want to know how to handle it when my child points out that their grandparents are not following the table manners that we are trying to stick by. I want to know how to handle negative comments about religion. I want to know how to make a child stick to the yes ma'am no ma'am rule even when adults out there say they don't like being called ma'am.

Again, it's a good book. But, if you are looking for a broad range of answers then you may still need to find another book in addition to this one as I am.

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Manners, fundamental social skills for success in life, are among the greatest gifts parents can give. From self-respect and respect for others to knowing how to behave in public, this comprehensive, practical guide helps parents instill age-appropriate manners as their child's world expands from toddlerhood through the teen years. This is a must-have resource for every family.

The Good, the Bad & the Difference: How to Tell the Right From Wrong in Everyday Situations

Randy Cohen

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Humbly perched atop his "accidental" vantage point (he never intended to be an ethicist), New York Times Magazine columnist Randy Cohen eagerly analyzes the circuitous moral landscape below and offers smart advice in The Good, the Bad & the Difference. Nearly 200 reader letters, Cohen's thoughtful responses, and occasional counterpoints from guest ethicists make up the bulk of this engaging collection. Divided into seven topics, questions seek guidance on appropriate behavior at work, school, and home; with friends; in public; in the medical field; and in situations where money counts. They range from the clear-cut (seeking justification for acts of revenge), to the no-win situation (think "whistle-blower"). The ethicist in Cohen provides a quick, logically gleaned response; the novelist in him "skillfully limns the complex and subtle relationships and the unspoken obligations that bind people together"; and the humorist in him makes it all irresistible. Each chapter's "Pop Ethics Quiz" invites readers to exercise their own moral muscles on serious and whimsical dilemmas. While Cohen claims no formal background in ethics, perhaps his stint as a writer for Late Night with David Letterman was school enough, for he shows a remarkable ability to smoke out the wrong and carefully preserve the right, even in the kookiest situations. --Liane Thomas

What Am I Feeling?

John Mordechai Gottman

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Review from Parenting Press 4 out of 5 stars.
31 of 32 people found this review helpful.

Everything we do and everything we learn is based in some way on how we feel.

How we feel about our emotions-whether we value those emotions and how we cope-shapes how we nurture children.

Adapted from John Gottman's Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, this book helps adults identify their parenting and caregiving style. It explains the five important steps in "emotion coaching" children, to ensure that children are guided to healthy emotional growth.

Kids who can accept and share their emotions do better in many ways, Gottman's research shows:

They form stronger friendships;
They achieve more in school;
They bounce back from emotional crises more quickly; and
They are physically healthier.

Beautifully illustrated with photographs of parents and children.

An enthusiastic recommendation to all parents 5 out of 5 stars.
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Relationship and parenting expert, John Gottman and the Talaris Research Institute insightfully presents What Am I Feeling? an informed and informative exploration of the mindset of children, and how certain adjustments might care for the sensitivity of most children. Gottman places an easy-to-follow "parent-friendly" guide to the constructive mentality of most children with an educational content to create the ideal book for struggling parents making What Am I Feeling? an enthusiastic recommendation to all parents.

Honor: A History

James Bowman

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Because it sounds better than "Honor, My Thesis Notes" 3 out of 5 stars.
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James Bowman has written a thoroughly provocative book that had me contemplating a concept I hadn't much considered - and more: the prevalence of this concept (and sometimes lack thereof) that he uses as a lens to focus many recent political and cultural events. However, you might notice in that last lauding sentence I made no reference to the past; Bowman's subtitle ("a history") doesn't pass muster. This is no "history of honor" - rather, it reads as a simple story of "how honor became discredited" using selective historical signposts as a means of making his point. Not quite the same thing and the book suffers for it, especially when the author ends up rather lamely suggesting various means to revive a certain brand of honor; not that a historical survey necessarily excludes opinion, but a less selective reading of history and more background would have served his purposes *far* better.

Still, simply by the novelty of his subject and the scope of its influence Bowman is on to something and if his clunky historical approach sometimes fails (the first chapter in this "history" discusses honor in the current Muslim culture and fully two-thirds of the reminder are devoted to the 20th century) he generally makes the case that honor *deserves* attention and the West (or any culture, really) ignores or denigrates it at its peril. The aforementioned discussion of Muslim honor codes, for example, is juxtaposed with strikingly similar ones in the medieval West - namely, ethical standards sublimated to the appearances important to one's "honor group" and neatly severed from any actual moral standards of right and wrong, much less life and death. Thus the killing of one's sister for even an implied notion of impropriety is thoroughly justified to protect the *appearance* of family or clan honor - never mind the barbaric morality involved in weighing another's very life so lightly.

So you might think honor's demise would be a reason to celebrate -- and many have. But here Bowman turns the tale, explaining that honor progressed (in the West, at least) from these crude origins to eventually embrace a rational morality. A Victorian honor revival -- spearheaded by Walter "Ivanhoe" Scott, among others - brought it to a 19th century peak before the slaughter of World War I and its modernist fallout eviscerated it. Bowman again jumps out of his historical survey to point out what we've lost; this demonstration is both sobering and insightful.

So why only three stars? Well, as the author sheepishly admits in his introduction "I lightly glide over the cultural artifacts of three thousands years in a few pages" and "I [can do no] more than skim the surface of this enormous subject." I expect this was written after he finished and unwittingly discovered the depth of his subject (no bad thing, really). Bowman is a decent writer but the book is perilously thin and selective at times, e.g., naming honor's 20th century bugbears at "modern warfare, psychotherapy (!) and feminism" seems almost random. (I could just as easily - and perhaps more accurately - point to, say, democracy, technology, Christianity and even capitalism.) Again, without a sound historical basis the author ends up sounding like your boilerplate conservative scold, railing about the triumph of the "unofficial" culture (with the usual suspects: celebrity worship, rampant egalitarianism, pop art, the fawning mass media) without honor to defend the "official" one.

Finally and curiously, for an otherwise strong book about a cultural artifact, `Honor' also doesn't define its own term very well. Bowman succeeds at describing what various people *think* honor is and how they apply it but without a precise sense of what it *is* - even across historical eras - he's left chasing effects rather than rooting out causes. Two or three steps up the conceptual chain of reasoning would have made for a far richer study and certainly would have provided some sorely needed ballast to his conclusion on restoring honor in our time. Bowman finishes with such a torrent of scolding and pessimism ("In what follows, I say rather what is to be done than what I think will or even can be done") that it almost makes one wonder why he went about writing this otherwise intriguing volume at all.

Editorial Review:

The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization. Today, while it may still be an essential concept in Islamic cultures, in the West, honor has been disparaged and dismissed as obsolete. In this lively and authoritative book, James Bowman traces the curious and fascinating history of this ideal, from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment and to the killing fields of World War I and the despair of Vietnam. Bowman reminds us that the fate of honor and the fate of morality and even manners are deeply interrelated.

Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues

Barbara MacKinnon

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Closely examine the major areas of ethical theory as well as a broad range of contemporary moral debates using MacKinnon’s acclaimed ETHICS: THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, Sixth Edition. Recognized for its breadth of coverage, this book provides a superbly balanced introduction that effectively integrates ethical theory with today’s most relevant moral issues. Illuminating overviews and a selection of readings from both traditional and contemporary sources make even complex philosophical concepts reader friendly. Comprehensive, clear-sighted introductions to general and specific areas of ethical debate cover major ethical theories, including feminist ethics and ethical relativism, before delving into issues ranging from euthanasia and sexual morality to war and professional ethics. New readings from prominent ethicists help increase this edition’s coverage of contemporary dilemmas with widespread impact, including torture and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, "partial birth" abortion, cloning, same-sex marriage, and Wikipedia and Google. The book’s new CengageNOW™ online learning system builds upon the book’s highly effective presentation with Personalized Study Plans that match multimedia learning tools to your specific learning style and needs. New integrated Ethics Learning Modules use flash-animated ethics simulations to help you practice what you’ve learned. Trust ETHICS: THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, Sixth Edition, to integrate theory and contemporary moral issues like no other text.

The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life

Laura Schlessinger, Stewart Vogel

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When it comes to the Ten Commandments, many theologians and spiritual leaders agree: the classic golden rules remain the best guiding principles available. Syndicated radio psychologist Dr. Laura Schlessinger utilizes these sacred Commandments to speak from her favorite pulpit of "do the right thing" therapy. Fans of Dr. Laura delight in her uncanny skill for zeroing in on the moral indiscretions and confusion at the core of most people's problems. With the Ten Commandments to back her up, Dr. Laura offers readers a day-to-day context for making healthy, loving, and morally correct choices. (So hopefully they can avoid the emotional pickles that her call-in guests frequently find themselves in.)

The esteemed Rabbi Stewart Vogel is the cowriter. As a result, the narrative fluctuates between real-life moral struggles (often based on people who've called into Dr. Laura's show) and biblical quotations that lead into intelligent, brief sermons. Readers who hunger for a clearer understanding of how the Ten Commandments can be applied to modern life will certainly be satisfied. Topics include "You Can't Ship God by UPS," "Which Vows Hold Water," "Honor Your Parents ... or Else," "Teachers Are Not Pets," and "Holy and Unholy Sex." --Gail Hudson

Teaching Your Children Responsibility

Richard Eyre, Linda Eyre

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As a parent, you know how much less stressful your life would be if you could count on your children to be more responsible-for their toys, their homework, their household chores, and their choice of friends.

You know you want your children to grow up to be responsible adults. In Teaching Your Children Responsibility, bestselling authors Linda and Richard Eyre show you how to make sure your elementary-school-aged children learn this invaluable lesson.

The Eyres identify twelve simple kinds of responsibility-from responsibility for things to responsibility for actions, from responsibility for choices to responsibility for younger siblings-that children can relate to.

They provide a simple, practical program-with enjoyable exercises, games, and activities-that you can use to teach your children these important concepts.

Written by parents for parents, Teaching Your Children Responsibility will help you give your children the tools they need to thrive in today's challenging world-and help them grow up to be happy, fulfilled adults.