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What Do You Stand For? For Kids: A Guide to Building Character

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I have a 7 year old daughter and I decided to purchase this book to see if I could use it to help her learn good character traits and morals without the religious overtone. It has worked out great! It's supposed to be for slightly older kids but I just work with her a little more slowly. I spend time reading the sections to her and after each paragraph, I pause to see if she has any questions. If she does then I spend the time to explain what she doesn't understand. At the end of each section there is an interactive part which encourages further thinking and discussion between us. She loves it now and practically begs me to learn more about good character. What's even better is she is learning and practicing it now. Soon, I'm going to have to get another book like this, which will more than likely be by the same publisher. This is an excellent book. Don't hesitate getting it. It will be one of the best things you, as a parent, will do with your child.

I have used this book with my own kids, as a counselor and in the school setting. It is a great tool for getting kids to think about character traits and their own choices and behaviors.

I used this as part of my daughter's homeschool social studies and health curricula. It was a good book and easy to understand.

This book is very well presented and organised with an attractive non-gender based cover. I red it with my 10 year old daughter, the inventory questionaires are easy to use and helped hone in the most pertanant character traits to begin exploring and building on.

Kids learn by example and role modeling; it was great to have stories in this text from other kids exemplifying how they recognised a particular trait, opportunities that allowed them to expand on and demonstrate that trait and some peer tips of how others can build this trait.

I really dont think I have anything negative to review about this product, the language is child oriented, complex words are defined, and the focus really is about developing a strong inner principle based character within your child as opposed to say gimmicky 'personality training to win people over'.

The effects of developing a character of honesty, loyalty, caring, citizenship etc will echo long into adulthood...

This book is a useful tool to help discuss character traits with teens. I have found the character dilemmas useful but sometimes ambiguous as to what the "moral thing" to do is. Some of the traits are hard to apply in a counseling setting where the kids are breaking the law because their point of view usually goes along the lines of 'if it doesn't involve me, I'm not going to speak up'. The book does have great definitions of each character trait.

This is the kind of book kids should be reading to build their character for tough times ahead.

I purchased this product to use with my high school students but I immediately sent it back when I looked inside to see it was far too elementary for my students. Would be great for the elementary school teacher. NOT for middle or high school.