How To Generate Values in Young Children

This book is directed to the parents teachers and counselors of preschool children. Integrity Honesty Individuality Self-Confidence and Wisdom: the ingredients for a successful life begin at a very early age. Sue Spayth Riley acknowledges the factors and complexities of modern life that inhibit the development of values in children while stating that we need not surrender to them. Decision-making is the key. Riley demonstrates how the childs ability to make up his or her own mind plays a major role in ethical and moral education. Through examples anecdote and clinical observation as well as theory Sue Spayth Riley shows how problems such as blanket-weaning staying dry hostile behavior and too much television can be resolved by the child.