Character Matters!: Raising Kids with Values That Last

By Susan Alexander Yates and John Yates

Book Overview

Strong, firm character does not develop automatically. This book helps families set and achieve the goals necessary for developing eight essential character traits: integrity, faith, a teachable spirit, a servant's heart, self-discipline, joy, compassion, and courage. The Yateses use stories and practical examples from their lives and the lives of their five children to show how character can be purposefully cultivated through the normal, daily events in life. With refreshing honesty, they share how parents and children can grow together in these qualities. Character Matters includes focus questions and three appendices, including a leader's guide for group study.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801064104
• ISBN13: 9780801064104
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Baker Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

One of the best parenting book

So many book out there tells us about how to discipline, communicate with, and teach our children. While all of those are important, but at the end of the day all of those doesn't matter if our children grow up to be a person with a bad character. John & Susan Yates shared the fact that children copy their parents. Reading this book has helped me to evaluate, learn and grow myself while helping my children to be the people of character.