How to Raise Kind Kids

And Get Respect, Gratitude, and a Happier Family in the Bargain

De: Thomas Lickona

Narrado por: Mel Foster

Can you teach your child to be kind?

This vital question is taking on a new urgency as our culture grows ever more abrasive and divided.

We all want our kids to be kind. But that is not the same as knowing what to do when you catch your son or daughter mocking a classmate who is struggling to fit in. A world-renowned developmental psychologist, Dr. Thomas Lickona has lead the character education movement in schools for 40 years and now he shares with parents the vital tools they need to create a culture of kindness at home. Kindness doesn’t stand on its own. It needs a supporting cast of other essential virtues - like self-control, good judgment, courage, and gratitude. So many things in our society teach a message of selfishness that it takes hard work to raise kind kids. Lickona offers a program for parents who are struggling - and the confidence it can work.

With concrete examples drawn from the many families he has worked with over the years and clear tips you can act on tonight, How to Raise Kind Kids will help you give and get respect, hold family meetings to tackle persistent problems, set up age-appropriate chores, tackle sibling cruelty, discipline in a way that builds character, and improve the dynamic of your relationship with your children while putting them on the path to a happier and more fulfilling life.

©2018 Thomas Lickona (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Recorded by arrangement with Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Great book for parents in general!

I found this book after many moments of frustration and power battles with my 7 and 5 year old. I have successfully implemented some tactics taught in this book and will continue to include more as my children get older. So much good info, I will likely buy this in paperback to refer to for years to come.

Amazing Ideas

The overall performance and storytelling was good but that's not why I would give a book a good review. The content was very well thought. the author is full of great ideas to offer to parents to raise kind kids and families. The book also provides a myriad of resources per the topic of each chapter. I have noted some that I had never heard of. it's good to have a book that you can go to whenever you have a question about whether what you are doing as a parent is helping or not your child in the future. Everything is backed up by research studies and scientific experiments, so this is both for the secular and nonsecular mind alike.

Outdated psychology and parenting

A bit outdated. Does not seem to have any awareness of emotional validation and gentle parenting- how to maintain boundaries AND encourage appropriate emotional expression. I’m disappointed I purchased this.
“Back-talk cannot be allowed” ooof
I think the values and tone of this book foster suppression and compliance and pleasing over authentic connection. I didn’t finish it- a first for me.