Building Character in Your Kids
Character matters! Building strong moral character in our kids is an ongoing process, taught and reinforced daily.
Virtues are foundational to character building. Virtues are traits deemed morally good and valued as basic principles of good moral conduct. They include qualities necessary for well-being and happiness. Use these ideas to build a strong moral fabric in your kids.
Strategies for Character Building
- Always expect the best from your children.
- Discuss expectations.
- Model expected behaviors.
- Keep routines consistent.
- Encourage sibling friendships.
- Communicate well.
- Provide choices within reason.
- Connect feelings, needs, and actions.
- Role play situations.
- Read virtuous, character building stories.
- Allow appropriate risk-taking.
- Assign chores to build responsibility and cooperation.
- Create boundaries & consequences.
- Reduce the use of technology.
- Plan family meetings.
- Collaborate on family rules.
- Write a family mission statement.
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness;
and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control;
and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
2 Peter 1:5-7
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