The Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves

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Bring compassion, generosity, and kindness into your home with this essential interfaith parenting guide to raising kids in a virtuous and spiritual household, with week-by-week strategies for living your best lives. The most important job parents have is to pass basic virtues on to their children, and this invaluable book is designed to help make that job a little easier. Compiled by The Virtues Project, an international organization dedicated to inspiring spiritual growth in young and old alike, this multicultural, interfaith handbook shows parents and teachers how to turn words into actions and ideals into realities. Drawn from the world's religions, the 52 virtues included here-one for each week of the year-nurture togetherness in family life. The simple strategies, which explain what a virtue is, how to practice it, and signs of success, will engage children of all ages in an exciting process of growth and discovery. This important book shows you how to- . Learn the language of integrity and self-esteem .Understand the five roles parents play .Discover ways to introduce sacred time into family life .Help children make moral choices The Family Virtues Guide gives adults and children the tools for spiritual and moral growth. Join the thousands of families discovering simple practices for bringing out the best in each other by sharing The Family Virtues Guide.

LINDA KAVELIN POPOV is the author of The Family Virtues Guide and is one of the founders and directors of the Virtues Project International.She travels around the world in support of the project's initiatives, speaking to communities, businesses, and governmental organizations.The United Nations Secretariat has honored the Virtues Project as a model for global reform for people of all cultures.She lives in the Gulf Islands near Victoria, British Columbia.

Praise for The Family Virtues Guide "An important book for teachers and those who work with children. It teaches the importance of developing moral character."-St. Petersburg Times "Emphasizes family virtues-those things that are valued by all faiths and cultures in the world, such as love, loyalty and courage."-Newsday