Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743245074)

Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life.

Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its ten essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility.

The culmination of a lifetime's work in character education from one the preeminent psychologists of our time, this landmark book gives us the tools we need to raise respectful and responsible children, create safe and effective schools, and build the caring and decent society in which we all want to live.

Author: Thomas Lickona
ISBN-10: 0743245075
ISBN-13: 9780743245074
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2004
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/01/2003 pg. 48
Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 148