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The Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves
This wonderful book stresses 52 virtues--one for each week of the year--including trust, caring, humility, generosity, and excellence. Popov instructs parents on how to teach without moralizing and provides guidelines that can be used to gauge whether children have successfully learned each lesson. Illustrations.
Paperback, 319 pages
Published
June 1st 1997
by Plume Books
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I was looking for a "spiritual" book to share ideas and virtues with my children, without weighing them down with too much religious ideology or dogma and this book came up. I've been reading the introductory chapters about how to parent and am finding myself saying, "YES!" and "Thank You!" and "wow! Great idea!" the whole time. But, that part aside, I was really excited to see how the author described each of the 52 virtues included and was thankful to...more
What a valuable tool for teaching children (and adults!) what virtues are, why they are important, and how to put them in to practice in daily life! As a family we're choosing one virtue to focus on each week. We meet on Sunday afternoons and discuss the virtue using the information given in The Family Virtues Guide, reinforce the information with games based on the charts and scenarios they provide, and then remind each other throughout the week what we're working on. I really like the use o...more
I love that book ... allows to tackle 52 virtues explained in simple words. I have it handy and refer to it all the time. Although there is a definition on Compassion ... I don't agree with it fully especially after our weekend of workshop!!
Also lots of brilliant ideas on how to apply 'The family virtues guide' in your family ... and how to feel empowered as a parent ... parent as educator, authority, guide, counselor ...
A 'must read' when working with families !!!
Also lots of brilliant ideas on how to apply 'The family virtues guide' in your family ... and how to feel empowered as a parent ... parent as educator, authority, guide, counselor ...
A 'must read' when working with families !!!
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An amazing guide for families wishing to strengthen their core virtues and instill a TRUE understanding of them in their children. The book contains suggestions for focusing on one virtue per week, for an entire year...including discussions of how implementing each virtue might look. BRAVO!
This was a big book of nothing IMO. The concept is great, but what was "usable" to me could have been taken written in an essay. It's good for reference though! Could have been better though.
I think this book is fabulous. I left off one star only because it crosses over a little into dreadlock mentality at some points but over all the message is great and the tips have been invaluable to me. I've seen a difference.
I truly cherish this book. The language I use with my children is deeply empowering for the entire family.
Very necessary for anyone involved in children's education.
The Montessori School where our children have/ do/ will attend uses this guide for weekly virtues lessons. I've decided to read the book to hopefully better implement the lessons at home to reinforce what they learn in school.
The number one thing I like about this book is the simple ideas it gives to bring out the best in our children and ourselves. The comprehensive list of virtues, their definitions, and simple ways to practice that value make this book a go to book when disucssing virtues/values with my children.
A really excellent guide on how to develop virtues as a family --how to inspire both kids and adults in moral and spiritual development. I found it extremely inspiring and helpful.
We've been using this book with our kids for the past year. We really like it. It has 52 different virtues which lets you focus on one per week. We have found it very useful
We've been using this book to teach a virtue each week (or so) with our kids. We really like it.
Fantastic, a must read for teaching your kids values.
definitely aimed for parents
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