What better way to spark a spirited debate on ethics with youngsters than by using the complex messages often found in fairy tales? Children enjoy a cozy familiarity with fairy tales. By basing your discussion of ethics on fairy tales, you are launching from common ground. Children aged eight and older typically are ready for… Read more »
The man came home from work late again, tired and irritated, to find his 5 year old son waiting for him at the door. “Daddy, may I ask you a question?” “Yeah, sure, what is it?” replied the man. “Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?” “That’s none of your business! What makes… Read more »
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. – Winston Churchill
The difference that makes a difference! Heredity Circumstances Disability Discrimination Environment It’s none of these but rather
Several years ago the sociology department of Duke University did a study on “peace of mind.” Several factors were found to contribute greatly to emotional and mental stability, they are:
Eric Graham knows all too well that when kids go online for the first time, the freedom of the cyberworld can seem intoxicating. When he got on the Net four years ago, “it was the first time I was given complete power over something – I could do whatever I wanted, and there was no… Read more »
Dirty Talkers Need Help If you need help with your Appropriate Language Campaigns, you’ll want to get a copy of the book Dirty Talkers Need Help! What do you do with offensive language? We’ve come across a book that can help. Dirty Talkers Need Help! presents a clinical procedure to solve the problem of bad… Read more »
Parent TV council study proves without a doubt that prime time TV is going down a moral sewer! Among the PTC’s findings: — Sexual content, coarse language, and violence combined nearly tripled from ’89 to ’99. — On a per-hour basis, sexual material was more than three times as frequent in ’99 as it was… Read more »
It is never too early to begin talking with our young people about personal values and helping them define and develop their own code of moral conduct. As society’s moral guidelines become increasingly more ambiguous, it is essential that we all have our basic code of ethics well crystallized in our own minds. Just as… Read more »
Gary Avants Bautista Creek Elementary School Hemet, CA 92543 Recently I took some of Gene Bedley’s advice concerning students in my ED classroom. He explained to me the concept of Asset Building or helping students to understand the unique gifts and abilities they have instead of focusing on their problems. Many of my students come… Read more »
