Right from Wrong: Instilling a Sense of Integrity in Your Child - Hardcover

Does your child have a conscience? Is he remorseful when caught in a lie? Very high on any wise list of dreams for our children is the hope that they become people of integrity. But integrity is not simply something that happens as a result of unconditional love, healthy genes, or good luck; it emerges, if it does, because parents make it a priority to exercise influence in this arena.Combining stories of children experiencing the day-to-day struggles of growing up with compassionate, in-depth analysis and pragmatic counsel, Right From Wrong makes nurturing the qualities of integrity tangible to parents and to the others who might be actively involved in guiding a child's moral life. Through the authors' wise and discerning eyes we witness children as they experience loss or sadness, react to sibling rivalries, schoolyard violence, and academic pressures, or even while they interact at the family dinner table. The ways in which parents use listening, praise, discipline, honesty, and consequences to react to these situations reinforces a child's sense of right and wrong; from these choices readers will learn valuable lessons about a parent's power to nurture character and morality in young children.

Michael Riera, Ph.D., has worked in education since 1980. He has appeared on the "Oprah Winfrey Show," "Today," "The View," and "48 Hours" and is a correspondent on the CBS "Early Show." Joseph Di Prisco, Ph.D., is an educator and writer who has taught for over twenty years in public, independent, and Catholic schools, middle school through college. Riera and Di Prisco are the co-authors of Field Guide to the American Teenager; they both live in Berkeley, California.