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

By Barbara A. Lewis

Book Overview

Discover what you stand for - and build the character to put your values into action.

What Do You Stand For? For Teens invites young people to explore who they are, what they value, and the positive character traits they want to develop. From honesty, empathy, integrity, and respect to responsibility, courage, leadership, communication, and self-discipline, this interactive guide helps teens examine character through real choices, thoughtful reflection, engaging activities, and inspiring examples.

Figure Out What Matters to You: Consider how your values shape your choices, relationships, and goals.Think Through Tough Choices: Tackle thought-provoking dilemmas that don't always have one right answer. Weigh different perspectives and consequences through reflection, journaling, discussion, debate, writing, and role-playing.Connect Character to Real Life: True stories of young people, quotations, activities, inventories, surveys, and checklists help you explore how values and character show up in everyday experiences.Make It Your Own: Read straight through, focus on a trait that matters to you, or explore one topic at a time, with activities connected to school, home, friendships, personal interests, and your community.

A Flexible Character-Building Resource for Teens: Young people can use What Do You Stand For? For Teens for independent reading and reflection, while teachers, parents, and other caring adults can use its dilemmas, activities, and discussion opportunities to spark meaningful conversations about values, choices, responsibilities, and positive character. Whether used at home, in the classroom, or with a group, this guide encourages teens to better understand themselves, consider what they believe, and explore what they stand for.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575420295
• ISBN13: 9781575420295
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

This book was awesome!!!

This book is by far one of my favorites. A very encouraging book looking at your positive traits. A great way to improve your self-esteem and help others. This book is jam-packed with great things that are good for the soul. I highly recommend this book to everyone; even grown-ups. It is also a great book because it also tells you websites or books you can check into to gain more knowlege about a certain topic. I totally enjoyed this book, and it has helped me a lot!

What every kid (adult) should read

What a well organized, motivational book on defining a person's character. Feeling like courage, friendship, integrity, empathy, caring, etc... For each term the author gives an story-like example and defines the meaning of the feeling, then gives examples and role playing questions of how to respond to ethical questions. A GREAT tool for parents and children. Plus websites and additional resources to understand terms. A wonderful book for parents to make sure their children have the character and responsivness to handle the world's problems. :>) GREAT BOOK! KUDDOS to the Author! I also recommend the American Girl Books as well.

What Do You Stand For?

This is an exceptionally well written book. The author explains ethics in such a way that children can truly grasp the meaning. Each section contains a story about character in action, character dilmmas, activities, and additional resources on the topic. I highly recommend this to all parents.