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Are You Brave or Courageous, and How Do You Become More So?
I am working on developing the activities pages for our upcoming Animals Building Character coloring and activities book. It is taking longer than expected because I want them to be child-friendly but not superficial. In the process of exploring the virtue of courage, I came across an interesting distinction between being brave and being courageous.
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Your Heart Knows It’s Good, Your Mind Knows Its Name
Even a newborn baby responds to love, kindness, gentleness and the generosity that flows from parent to child. A pure heart can recognize these virtues intuitively. But… to be able to consciously work on practicing them, it helps to know their names and understand their definitions. While raising our children, it is easy to fall
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Fun Family Pictures of Our Deluxe Block Set
I took our new deluxe version of our Character Building Blocks to play with during our recent extended family vacation. With a host of children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and nieces and nephews filling a large Victorian vacation home near the shores of Lake Michigan, I had lots of help exploring the possibilities of the supplemental
Crayons will be arriving this week
In the meantime, this is a picture of the first lamb born this year at our company’s site. The sun is coming up, school buses are arriving across the street, and the day is about to begin. Today I’ll be trying to figure out how to make room in the warehouse for a pallet
Winter days are not a slow as you might think
Welcome or welcome back readers. In the spring when we are so busy, I think back on January as a blissfully relaxed. The truth is that it could be. Sales are slow this time of year and road conditions often require more time spent at home. But this is January, and we are very
Early days of the new year. Early days for virtues101
This site has been open since the first of this year. And I’m really appreciating any early supporters viewing this post. Because I have run out of bugs to fix and errors to correct, it is time to learn something new about keeping in touch. So today, I posted to facebook and sent my very
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Virtues 101 Character Education Made Easy
Teach the language of virtues to unlock your child’s emotional intelligence. Positive emotions often share the same name as the virtue we are experiencing when we feel them. For example, we feel patient when we are being patient; we feel joy when we are joyful, and we feel grateful when we are grateful. We experience