by Thomas Lickona

Don't let your kids flunk life! Award-winning psychologist-educator Thomas Lickona offers more than 100 practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life. He lays out the blueprint for building core virtues through a partnership shared by families, schools, and communities. Chapters include: 14 strategies that help kids succeed academically while building character, more than a dozen character-building discipline strategies, 20 ways to prevent peer cruelty and promote kindness, and 10 ways to talk to teens about sex, love and character.