Teaching Your Children Values

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Summary: This book is a GREAT parenting tool!!!
Review: I highly value this book and feel it's not only been helpful within my own home but also recommend this book to my clients. This book provides very meaningful and memorable ways to interact with and to teach your child. I recommend this book most highly!

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Summary: Also useful for non-parents
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book.I do not have children of my own yet, but I found this book to be useful and inspiring. Linda and Richard Eyre are the type of parents I hope to be someday, and meanwhile, I intend to do some 'self-parenting' by using this book. I grew up in the 'permissive 70's', and although my parents do have values that I admire, I wish that they had communicated how important these values would be in later life to me.

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Summary: UNREALISTIC
Review: Maybe in the perfect world children act as this book illustrates. If parents made children have such family discussions and play such games as the authors describe, the children would crack up laughing (especially school age children and adolescents). The book has about 7 games and discussions methods that they just change words to apply to different values. They receive two stars only because they did make some good points, such as teach by example, praise, and listen. However the rest of the book is filled with stupid games that no child I know would ever play. I, honestly, feel bad for their nine children who had to experience all these stupid discussions and games. Also, monetary awards do almost nothing for children, and that is the award type the Eyre's use. So, in effect, they are paying the childrent to play those stupid activities.

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Summary: ...a Latin American Perspective
Review: Most countries in LAR face emergency-type living more than often. One is constant facing unexpected events, working long shifts to deal with inefficiencies and lack of resources. In such a context, priorities get sometimes turned up-side-down and you may find people very concerned with so basic things. This book is a MUST-READ for every parent in the LAR environment who deeply cares about parenting and is fighting to succedd in an adverse set of circumstances...

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Summary: ...a Latin American Perspective
Review: Most countries in LAR face emergency-type living more than often. One is constant facing unexpected events, working long shifts to deal with inefficiencies and lack of resources. In such a context, priorities get sometimes turned up-side-down and you may find people very concerned with so basic things. This book is a MUST-READ for every parent in the LAR environment who deeply cares about parenting and is fighting to succedd in an adverse set of circumstances...

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Summary: easy ways to teach your children essential values
Review: My name is Jonah Eyre. I am the son of the authors of this excellent book and couldn't more highly recommend it. I grew up with these techniques being tested on me and I think that they really work. My parents are my best friends and that is what I think parenting is really about. Teach this stuff to your children.

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Summary: Teaching Your Children Values
Review: Teaching Your Children Values by Linda and Richard Eyre is a practical guide that advises parents - and anyone working with children - how to teach values. Linda and Richard live in Salt Lake City, Utah where they co-host their own radio and TV programs dedicated to better parenting. Richard has served as Director of the White House Conference on Children and Parents. They have nine children. The book covers children from preschoolers to adolescents, and discusses twelve values they feel are key. Some of those values include: honesty, self-reliance, self discipline, respect and chastity. The Eyre's believe that parents should begin teaching values to their children very early on through the use of games. However, by the time children reach adolescence, they recommend that parents have open discussions of various situations to allow them to think about possible consequences. The Eyre's feel that teaching consequences is equally important, particularly in adolescents because in many cases, it may mean the difference between life and death. For example, adolescents should know what can happen if they smoke, or drink and drive or have unprotected sex. Although the Eyre's book focuses on the parenting aspect of teaching values, I found many of their suggestions and discussions useful for educators as well. While I agree that it is mainly the parents' responsibility to teach values, I also think that it is falling more and more on the shoulders of public education. Therefore, their suggestions for approaching values can be as valuable for teachers as it is for parents. I highly recommend this book for any person working with children.

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Summary: Teaching Your Children Values
Review: Teaching Your Children Values by Linda and Richard Eyre is a practical guide that advises parents - and anyone working with children - how to teach values. Linda and Richard live in Salt Lake City, Utah where they co-host their own radio and TV programs dedicated to better parenting. Richard has served as Director of the White House Conference on Children and Parents. They have nine children. The book covers children from preschoolers to adolescents, and discusses twelve values they feel are key. Some of those values include: honesty, self-reliance, self discipline, respect and chastity. The Eyre's believe that parents should begin teaching values to their children very early on through the use of games. However, by the time children reach adolescence, they recommend that parents have open discussions of various situations to allow them to think about possible consequences. The Eyre's feel that teaching consequences is equally important, particularly in adolescents because in many cases, it may mean the difference between life and death. For example, adolescents should know what can happen if they smoke, or drink and drive or have unprotected sex. Although the Eyre's book focuses on the parenting aspect of teaching values, I found many of their suggestions and discussions useful for educators as well. While I agree that it is mainly the parents' responsibility to teach values, I also think that it is falling more and more on the shoulders of public education. Therefore, their suggestions for approaching values can be as valuable for teachers as it is for parents. I highly recommend this book for any person working with children.

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Summary: Good Teaching Guide
Review: This is a good book for both parents and teachers who are concerned with teaching good values to the younger generation. The authors have illustrated that values can be inculcated in children or even adolescents through simple methods.

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Summary: You must have this book!
Review: Very applicable, enjoyable, easy to read, helpful, simple and entertaining! Every parent should read this book!