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If You Had to Choose, What Would You Do?

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This book is such a wonderful way to open up dialogue with yourchildren. They love to tell you what they would do and you get theopportunity to share your values at the same time. I really think this is a wonderful way to talk to your kids about peer pressure and right and wrong so they are prepared to make good decisions when the challenges actually arrive. I highly recommend this book to all parents.

We have children ranging from 6-11 who all love this book. It has become part of our dinner ritual to choose a story and take turns responding to the ethical challenges.

I really enjoyed this book. There is no right, nor wrong answer. The situations that the child needs to made a decision about, are real life, and believable. I have reccomended this book to all of my teacher friends. Thank you Ms. Humphrey

Consists of chapters of different scenarios. My six year old likes to listen and answer the questions but most of the stories are for older readers. E.g. one story is about a young boy who goes into his brother's box under his bed (which he knows is off limits) and finds a stash of hash. This led us to discussions of not just respecting privacy/ to tell or not to tell but the whole concept of marijuana and what it is! I'm happy to develop an awareness but there are no warnings as to the content of the story. (Should have 'pre-read' but the picture caught my daughter's attention while flicking through.) The lack of suggestions as to what to do is made up for in the text which touches on these while reading. The concept of the story is often not apparent from the title or the related illustrations.

This book, the first in the series, is the kind of book that I sought out when raising my young children. Humphrey, a licensed psychologist, does not preach values to children. Instead, she uses her years of experience to introduce twenty-five scenarios followed by a series of questions. These questions, ideal for teachers leading classroom discussions or for parents engaged in daily readings with their children, do not explicitly state a right course of action, but allow children to explore and fine-tune their own moral compass. The effect is the development of a child's own sense of fairness and what makes actions inherently right or wrong. I highly recommend this book, and the others in the series, for any teacher, parent, or grandparent interested in pursuing lively discussions regarding ethics and behavior with children.

Karl L. Kruger for the American Author's Association

In If You Had To Choose What Would You Do, the author realistically captures the social/moral dilemmas that children face in their everyday lives. After each story, the author provides thought-provoking questions to help generate discussions in the classroom or at home. What I particularly like about this book is that it gives kids the opportunity to really think about what they would do in a particular situation if they were in the characters' shoes.

To me, this book is a "must have" for families. I'm using it with my young teenager as a part of a home school ethics curriculum, and it is so thought provoking. Teenagers often shut down, not talking to their parents about dilemmas and challenges they face in their everyday lives. This wonderful book gives kids and parents the opportunity to read and then talk about fictional stories that really resonate with kids. I highly recommend this book!

I bought this book for our "Character Building" class that we do for homeschool. My children, ages 4 and 8, both LOVE it. The stories are interesting and relevant to them. They are short and followed by questions to get kids thinking about what they would do in certain situations. I love how it gets kids thinking about all sides of the story and all possible outcomes. I also love how it opens up communication between parent and child (or students and teacher). I feel more confident that my children will come to me when they face these issues in their own lives because we've discussed them and they've witnessed me being understanding of the concerns of the children in the stories. Highly recommended!

The book provides thought provoking questions for kids but answers are not provided in the book. Although I know the right answers I don't the right way to explain it to my kid. Its very important for kids to understand what makes the correct answer "correct". The book is more useful for teachers, but its rather incomplete for parents like me.