Good Kids, Tough Choices : How Parents Can Help Their Children Do the Right Thing

by Rushworth M. Kidder

• ISBN13: 9780470875537
• ISBN10: 0470875534
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-08-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

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 temperament. He encourages parents not to give up, since what they do can always make a difference, regardless of how long or deep the bad habits of dishonesty may be. Encourages parents to intervene early and re-establish children on the right course Explores the keys to ethical behavior: honesty, responsibility, respect, fairness, and compassionAll of Kidder's practical advice is based on the latest psychological and neuroscientific research about how kids develop character and learn what's right and wrong.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Three Lenses for Ethical Parenting

How to Use This Book

What If I Face Ethical Dilemmas of My Own?

Raising Kids in Today's Moral Environment

What the Research Tells Us

Why Parents Make a Difference

Birth Through Age Four

Branson and the Gold Coins

Teaching Responsibility

Playing According to Your Own Rules

Loren Wrecks the Train

Ages Five Through Nine

Teaching Thrift in an Age of Opulence

Teaching Ethics Through Principles

Ethics and Peer Pressure

Ages Ten Through Fourteen

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas

Zero Tolerance

Avoiding Bystander Apathy

Showing Moral Courage

Ages Fifteen Through Eighteen

Finding the Third Way

A Sexual Crisis

Caught Stealing

Confronting Parental Weakness

Explaining Divorce

Ages Nineteen Through Twenty-Three

Counseling, Not Controlling

Supporting Your Daughter or Saving Your Grandchildren

The Difference Between Courage and Stubbornness

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

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