Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

This is an essential book to have regarding character education. It comes with theoretical and practical aspects so that it can be used by students, teachers, parents and any person that would be interested in getting to know more about personal, academic, and self-development.

The author illustrates over and over why character matters. Schools no longer teach some of the things they did back a few decades ago, such as character development including courtesy, integrity and so forth. Further, due to their busy schedules and because they think it's taught in school, many .parents don't teach their children the importance of character either. Accordingly, there seems to be a lack of certain virtues in our society today as studies indicate cheating on exams and dishonesty have increased. The author suggests strategies for teaching character to young people both in the home and at school.This is a very good book in my opinion. And after reading a borrowed copy, I have purchased three copies. One I will retain for my use and the other two will be given to members of my family to read and use in teaching their children.

As a new substitute teacher when I read this book from the library I just knew I had to have it in my library and I knew right where to get it, Amazon.com. I bought it for 1 cent and it was in good shape, was not written in at all, only on the side pages but that was blacked out, that's fine with me. Thank you Amazon.com.

This is a very thorough book about why character education matters. It is a very easy read and gives a lot of very applicable advice to parents, teachers, and others who are thinking of implementing character education with children and adolescents.

I have read this book twice and have highlighted many points it is a great book

While this book started off strong, with great definitions and explorations of character, the author goes off on some specific tangents that disrupt from the books central theme and detract from the message. While the author is entitled to his position on abortion, he takes for granted that all people must feel the same way, and spends time on at how many weeks fetal heartbeat is detected to further his position. Interesting in an anti-abortion book, but came out of left field in the chapter he was writing here. Similarly, he takes for granted that all parents naturally want to teach their children that masturbation is immoral, and suggests that if your teen self-identifies as homosexual that you should try to take them to a psychiatrist to get that fixed. Again, a lot of parents might feel this way, but he makes assumptions and then goes off on tangents.He also uses some questionable data and doesn't support some of his statistics with verifiable sources. For example, he says that homosexual young women are at a higher risk for STDs than heterosexual women (completely untrue) He obviously supports abstinence-based sex education in schools, but doesn't talk about the studies that show that teens who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are more likely to substitute high-risk behaviors that lead to STDs (Journal of Adolescent Health) and are less prepared to handle temptation when they are asked to use willpower alone to manage the risks that can be consequences of adolescent hormones.I started off loving this book, and dog-eared and high-lighted several pages in the first few chapters, and ignored the first few questionable statistics and tangents, but it got worse and worse, until I felt uncomfortable continuing to read it, like I was reading a parenting book by Jerry Falwell.One character-building book I'd recommend instead is Character Building Activities For Kids.

This was a required reading for one of my grad classes. Books through the book store are outrageous. Amazon is a much better choice. This was clean and neat.

Outstanding book with hundreds of tips from one of the leading "gurus" who brought the importance of character back to the classroom.

I loved reading this book. It’s full of strategies for working with children. There are chapters for parents but the book is mostly about how to develop character education in a school.

great

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Item not as described in advert, full of notes and sections highlighted in yellow, but content of the book was what I expected.