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Vincent, Philip Fitch – 1994
Many educators seem reluctant to instill in their pupils good habits such as honesty, respect, and truthfulness. This book emphasizes how teachers can create schools in which students practice and exhibit respect and responsibility. Many problems in schools, homes, and society at large, arise from a lack of good character. To develop moral…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction
Bigner, Jerry J. – Fam Coord, 1970
The present paper focuses on the status of the research literature on fathering and emphasizes the need for further research concerning the impact of the father on the personality development of children. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior, Children, Dialogs (Literary), Fathers
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Borstelmann, L. J. – 1976
This paper from the 1976 Southeastern Conference on Human Development is an overview of the attitudes that have influenced the research and writings on childrearing form 1920 to 1950. The content of articles in popular periodicals on infants and child care for mothers is reviewed in relation to the themes and scientific movements of the period.…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Rearing, Children, Discipline
Piechowski, Michael M. – 1997
This paper discusses an expanded definition of the concept of emotional giftedness in children as defined by Annemarie Roeper. In contrast to examples of academic and artistic prodigies, cases are reviewed that illustrate less tangibly measured examples of children's giftedness, such as expressions of compassion, moral sensitivity, positive…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Children, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
Weston, Denise Chapman; Weston, Mark S. – 1996
Noting that we are raising our children in a morally ambiguous world and we have to do more than just discipline them and hope for the best, this book is a manual for raising children who are emotionally and intellectually capable and confident, by means of play activities that imbue a sense of right and wrong. Each chapter of the manual begins…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Codes of Ethics, Consciousness Raising