Posted by admin on December 30, 2010 under Books | 
The Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves by Linda Kavelin Popov (Author), Dan Popov (Author), John Kavelin (Author)
When you witness a small child haul off and smack another child unprovoked, the theory of innate morality seems to lose all validity. Moral education has always been the domain of religion, and Linda Kavelin Popov has culled 52 universal virtues from the world’s religions, one for each week of the year. The resulting Family Values Guide is a workbook for the moral education of children that transcends differences of religion or culture. Each week, the book suggests, a family should gather to discuss a different virtue from the book, such as love, generosity, or patience, and the parents then emphasize the virtue for the following days, capitalizing on appropriate moments for education. Contrary to some pop psychology authors, Popov insists that reasonable boundaries be established and maintained for children and that appropriate punishment be meted out when boundaries are crossed. Psychotherapist and president of the Family Values Project, Popov sees the language of values as the key to recognizing their importance in social interaction, and encourages parents to add other values to their own list.
Posted by admin on October 25, 2009 under Jonas Salk Trading Card, Trading Card |
Jonas Salk - Medical Pioneer
Even the disease’s name scares everyone today: Cancer. But in the 1950′s the scary disease was Polio. It paralyzed or killed children. People kept hoping someone would find a way to stop it. Dr. Salk worked every day for years to discover a vaccine to prevent polio, and he succeeded. But instead of bragging and taking lots of money for his work, he displayed HUMILITY and kept working as a doctor to find cures for other diseases, including cancer and AIDS.
Virtue: Humility is not bragging about your success.
Call to Action: What could you say to someone who praises you for doing a good job?
http://www.theheroesclub.org/jonas_salk.php#trading_card
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Benjamin Franklin’s the Art of Virtue: His Formula for Successful Living
Benjamin Franklin was one of the greatest American minds of the 18th century, and his goal was to be a doer of good and to live a useful life. His dedication to principles of self-improvement and his belief that these principles could be beneficial to all led him in 1760 to “propose … a little work … to be called The Art of Virtue”.
Though Franklin never completed the project, editor George L. Rogers has culled Franklin’s writings to assemble the book he might have written. The Art of Virtue is arranged according to twelve principles which guided Franklin’s life, including Franklin’s thoughts on goals and personal development, family and interpersonal relationships, business and wealth, ethics, good health, aging, and more.
The Art of Virtue is full of profound insight, delightful humor, quotable quotes — and plenty of common sense.
Benjamin Franklin has contributed to Benjamin Franklin’s the Art of Virtue: His Formula for Successful Living as an author. Frankling was a U.S. Statesman, writer and scientist.
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
Author: Benjamin Franklin, George L Rogers, John Hamer,
Edition Number: 3
Language: English
ISBN: 0938399101
EAN: 9780938399100
No. of Pages: 312
Publish Date: 1996-12-31
Binding: Paperback
Names of Virtues with their Precepts are
1 . Temperance.
Eat not to Dullness
Drink not to Elevation.
2. Silence.
Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself.
Avoid trifling Conversation.
3. Order.
Let all your Things have their Places.
Let each Part of your Business have its Time.
4. Resolution.
Resolve to perform what you ought.
Perform without fail what you resolve.
5. Frugality.
Make no Expense but to do good to others or yourself:
i.e. Waste nothing.
6. Industry.
Lose no Time. Be always employ’d in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary Actions.
7. Sincerity.
Use no hurtful Deceit.
Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice.
Wrong none, by doing Injuries or omitting the Benefits that are your Duty.
9. Moderation.
Avoid Extremes. Forbear resenting Injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. Cleanliness.
Tolerate no Uncleanness in Body, Clothes or Habitation.
11 . Tranquillity.
Be not disturbed at Trifles, or at Accidents common or unavoidable.
12. Chastity.
Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dullness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another’s Peace or Reputation.
13. Humility.
Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
