"Character Matters" is an essential read for parents and educators who want to build strong moral character in children. With over 100 practical strategies, the book shows the clear link between character and success in life. This book stands out its ten essential qualities of good character, including wisdom, love, and humility. It is a must-read for anyone looking to raise respectful and responsible children, create safe schools, and build a society of caring and decency.

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Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life.Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its ten essential wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility.The culmination of a lifetime’s work in character education from one the preeminent psychologists of our time, this landmark book gives us the tools we need to raise respectful and responsible children, create safe and effective schools, and build the caring and decent society in which we all want to live.

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