Teach your children well

the long version

What do we really want as parents? We want to love a child, have a rich family life, be part of some bigger plan than just ourselves. Yet what do we want our children to be like? Well, perfect naturally. We want healthy, bright, creative children. We want our children to grow up well and find a purpose of their own, a successful life's work, a family, happiness. We want them to be good people, the kind of people we would want as neighbors and friends. Few of us, however, know instinctively how to make all of this actually happen. "Character is that within a person which governs moral choices...it is teaching the young to make wise and kind choices." -Mary Pipher In Teach Your Children Well: A Parent's Guide to Encouraging Character and Integrity, international speaker and author, Madelyn Swift and associate, Victoria Mathies offer an informative and timely discussion of how parents can offer guidance and support for their children's development of a character and integrity. In this book they suggest a number of strategies that today's parent can use in everyday life to highlight what is right and to encourage their children to think about the consequences of their actions. "How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?" -Michael Josephson As parents we are often seeking answers to these kinds of question, and we need to find ways to encourage our children to ask themselves these questions also. This book shows us ways in which parents can address these issues with confidence and a clear sense of direction.