Helping Siblings Like Each Other
As my children grow older, I worry less about things like sleep and eating and more about bigger issue things like morals and relationships. Sleep and eating are not …
Childwise
Learn all about On Becoming Childwise. Find out what it teaches and how the novel by Garry Ezzo helps parents raise their children in the best way.
Should You Control the Environment for Your Children
Should You Control the Environment for Your Children. What you should try to control and what you should let go. I have talked about Controlling Environment for Toddlers. Last month, I …
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How to Teach Respect for Personal Property
How to Teach Respect for Personal Property. How to teach children to respect the property of others. We have recently been talking about teaching virtues to children. We talked about …
Teaching Virtue and the Importance of YOU
Childwise Principle #8 is: “To teach a virtue, one example (you) is better than a thousand lectures” ( On Becoming Childwise , page 92). Parental example is vitally important …
What vs. How of Training Your Child’s Character
What vs. How of Training Your Child’s Character Children are different from each other. Very different. Any of you who have more than one child know that well. And my guess …
Avoid Legalism
Moral precept number six in On Becoming Childwise is to Avoid Legalism When Giving Instructions. Let’s start with an explanation of what Legalism is. Legalism is viewing …
Evaluating and Teaching Context
Our last moral precept discussion from On Becoming Childwise was on teaching Why. That idea spills over in our topic for today: context. Have you ever given your child …