Teaching Kids to Care: Nurturing Character and Compassion Paperback - 2007

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Teaching Kids to Care shares, for the first time in print, the unique methods and concepts that cultivate caring and compassion in children, developed and fine-tuned during thirteen years work at Kids Korps USA by its award-winning founders. Dreaming about a child's future begins long before the child is actually born. We wish for them to be happy, successful, well adjusted and healthy. Unfortunately, the world sends mixed messages and children do not just download these qualities. How do we as parents ensure that our children have the empathy and integrity that we dreamed they would? How do we fight the all too human attributes of selfishness, self-absorption, complacency, bullying and isolation and teach children to care? - from Teaching Kids to Care.By focusing on the five caring Touchstones, connection, interdependence, perspective, gratitude and inspiration, they offer ways to surround their children with actions and messages designed to strengthen character, build self-esteem and develop inner contentment. Even parents with the most chaotic schedules can use each chapter's simple suggestions for reinforcing every Touchstone in 30-second, 30-minute, 3-hour or 3- day increments.