Morals

Courage Perseverance
Children's Book of Virtues
by William J. Bennett
Here is the true story of a brave heart, one willing to hold on as long as it takes to get the job done. Holland is a country where much of the land lies below sea level.

Self-Discipline
The Book of Virtues
by William J. Bennett
In self-discipline one makes a 'disciple' of oneself. One is one's own teacher, trainer, coach, and 'disciplinarian.' It is an odd sort of relationship, paradoxical in its own way, and many of us don't handle it very well.

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
by David Hume
DISPUTES with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are, of all others, the most irksome; except, perhaps, those with persons, entirely disingenuous, who really do not believe the opinions they defend, but engage in the controversy

Introduction
Character Matters : How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues
by Thomas E. Lickona, Ph.D.
Portraits of character touch something deep in the human heart. In the award-winning Civil War documentary by Ken Burns, one of the most commented on and moving moments was the reading of a letter written by a Union soldier, Major Sullivan Ballou

Treatise on Parents and Children
by George Bernard Shaw
And now the voices of our Moral Instruction Leagues will be lifted, asking whether there is any reason why the appetite for perfection should not be cultivated in rationally scientific terms instead of being associated with the story of Jonah

Religious Education in the Family
by Henry F. Cope
Moral crises arise in every family. Deeply as we may desire to maintain an even tenor of character-development, in harmony and quietness, occasions will bring either our own imperfections or those of our children - or of our neighbors' children

Parent and Child, Volume III
by Mosiah Hall
'Somehow I'll escape,' is the fatal thought which blinds the poor fool who, for the first time, treads the path of self-indulgence or wrong-doing. But he ought to know that escape is impossible. No cave is dark enough, no ocean deep enough to hide

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young
by Jacob Abbott
This moral was not, as some readers might perhaps anticipate, and as, indeed, many persons of less tact might have made it, that Egbert ought himself, as a boy, to obey those in authority over him. Instead of this he closed by saying

Exceptional Parenting
The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have
by Malcolm Gauld, Laura Gauld
We are the parents of three school-aged children. We began our professional careers as teachers over twenty years ago and have spent the years since working with hundreds of teenagers and their families.