What Do You Stand For?: For Kids: A Guide to Building Character

By Barbara A. Lewis

Book Overview

Discover the positive qualities inside you - and strengthen your character every day.

What Do You Stand For? For Kids helps kids ages 8-13 discover what character means, recognize the positive qualities they already have, and explore character traits they can continue to strengthen. Through true stories, thought-provoking "What If?" situations, inspiring quotations, and engaging activities, kids learn about good character while considering their own choices, relationships, and everyday experiences.

Discover Your Character Strengths: Kid-friendly checklists and activities encourage children to think about who they are, what's important to them, and the positive qualities they want to develop and strengthen.Explore Positive Character Traits: Learn about caring, citizenship, cooperation, fairness, forgiveness, honesty, relationships, respect, responsibility, and safety - and discover why these qualities matter in everyday life.Think Through Real-Life Choices: "What If?" situations invite kids to consider choices where the best answer isn't always clear. Children can think, write, discuss, or role-play different situations while learning to listen to others, consider different ideas, and disagree respectfully.Learn from Stories and Activities: True stories about children introduce each character trait, while quotations, definitions, background information, and hands-on activities help kids understand and practice what they're learning.Build Your Character Muscles: Work on one character trait for a day, a week, or a month; read the chapters in order; or jump directly to topics that spark interest. Reproducible activities and checklists give kids additional ways to explore themselves, their relationships, daily responsibilities, and safety.

A Flexible Character-Building Resource for Kids: Perfect for independent reading or shared use with parents, teachers, and other caring adults, What Do You Stand For? For Kids encourages meaningful conversations about values and choices. At home, in the classroom, or with a group, kids can strengthen positive character and discover the kind of person they want to become.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575421747
• ISBN13: 9781575421742
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Good

I used this as part of my daughter's homeschool social studies and health curricula. It was a good book and easy to understand.

Relevant

This is the kind of book kids should be reading to build their character for tough times ahead.

Good tool for classroom, scouts, or counselors

I have used this book with my own kids, as a counselor and in the school setting. It is a great tool for getting kids to think about character traits and their own choices and behaviors.

Every Parent Should Get This Book

I have a 7 year old daughter and I decided to purchase this book to see if I could use it to help her learn good character traits and morals without the religious overtone. It has worked out great! It's supposed to be for slightly older kids but I just work with her a little more slowly. I spend time reading the sections to her and after each paragraph, I pause to see if she has any questions. If she does then I spend the time to explain what she doesn't understand. At the end of each section there is an interactive part which encourages further thinking and discussion between us. She loves it now and practically begs me to learn more about good character. What's even better is she is learning and practicing it now. Soon, I'm going to have to get another book like this, which will more than likely be by the same publisher. This is an excellent book. Don't hesitate getting it. It will be one of the best things you, as a parent, will do with your child.

Stand Up for What you Believe

This book shares the stories of students who were not afraid to stand up for their beliefs. It is a wonderful resource.