New Site, New Look, New Features!
Welcome to our new, transformed site! Character building should never be stagnant – and we don’t want our website to be stagnant, either. Character building should be fresh, exciting, and interesting to those who teach and to those who learn – and we want our website to be the same. That’s why you now see a new look with new features. We’ve transformed our website! Some of the features on this list are already in place. Some are on the site, waiting for you to discover them, but are not on this list. Some wait eagerly to make their appearance. Character traits – listed, ...
Character Building for Every Age!
Character building is, say some, only for children from Kindergarten to age ten. After that, they claim, character building and formal character education are unnecessary. Really? If character building is not necessary after your tenth birthday, why do business people engage in back stabbing and dishonest business practices? Why do adults reject self-control and bow to unhealthy appetites? How do we explain dysfunctional families? Why do middle school and secondary school students misbehave? Why is bullying rampant? Why do teachers in upper grades receive little respect? Why is teen responsibility an issue? It seems that character building and formal character education ...
Character Building for the Whole Family!
Character building – what is it? Will your family accept it? You’ve seen the TV commercials. “Talk to your kids,” they urge. They show boys going for a walk with Dad to discuss character traits; girls sitting down with Mom for a family values chat. Would your children and teens comply with a little character building the way the kids in the commercials seem to comply? “You don’t understand,” you say. “I want to get into family character building, but you don’t know my family. Everyone’s too busy. The little ones wouldn’t sit still for character building – and the very words ...
Character Building in Business is Vital to Success
Character building in business is vital to success, no matter what enterprise it is. That is a general rule of our universe, but a rule that the business world often neglects or shuns. Many otherwise well informed business people choose to believe that character does not matter. Character building in business is an unnecessary waste of time to them. It detracts from the bottom line. What they fail to recognize is that men and women who give a vital place to character building in business prosper more often than those who reject it. They may not prosper financially to the extent ...
Character Education Secrets for Teachers!
Teachers, stop wishing your character education lesson plans were powerfully effective, and actually make them powerfully effective! Character education entered your curriculum without YOUR vote! Right? YOU consider character education a boring add-on to the curriculum! Don’t worry. Many teachers view character education as just one more new task. Character education isn’t new, of course. It’s nearly “as old as dirt!” Aristotle and Plato taught, 2400 years ago, that the main purpose of education was to produce citizens who would consistently exercise high moral values. The Main Purpose of Education: They were right! Character education is the main purpose of all that you do ...
Character Education Lesson Plans Must Sell – Part 1 of 3
Character education lesson plans have a purpose, and that purpose is to sell high moral values to young people in a way that they find irresistible. Such selling is not automatic, of course. Character education lesson plans lying on a desk or standing on a shelf do no selling on their own. They must sell moral values through the teachers that handle them. Character education lesson plans are a school’s sales campaign – the design that teachers use to present high moral values to their students. As TV commercials convince young people that the latest fad is “to die for,” character ...
Character Education That’s Fun for 3-to-8-Year-Olds!
Character education can be fun for young children – and effective – when character education lesson plans and character education activities contain three secret ingredients! Before we discover those ingredients, though, I want to ask you something. Do you know that many parents and teachers don't believe character education can be fun? They think they will make children sad, angry, and frustrated if they teach them to do right. As a parent, and a career teacher for more than 40 years, I strongly disagree! Character education can be great fun for three-to-eight-year-olds. You can make character education both fun and effective for young ...
Character Education that Nine-to-Eleven-Year Olds Love!
Character education is exciting for upper elementary level children – and they love it – when your character education lesson plans and character education activities offer three captivating elements! You want to know what those elements are, and we’ll get to that, but let me ask you a question. Do you know that many teachers say you can’t expect nine-to-eleven-year-olds even to like character education, let alone to love it? I beg to differ! As a career teacher for more than 40 years, a principal, and parent of two adult children, I know that nine-to-eleven-year-olds can love character education. Character education can be ...
Character Education that Teenagers Enjoy!
You’ve probably noticed that some teens seem to bond inextricably to cell phones, talking and texting incessantly about clothing and music! Character education has a big hurdle if it’s going to be enjoyable to that group. Teenagers are preparing to enter adulthood, and often find their enjoyment in what they think that world is. They’re interested in what they regard as “hot” issues: dating, sexual intimacy, teen pregnancy, sports, and run-ins with the law – but character education? “Boring,” groan teenagers. So how can we change boring to enjoyable? Teenagers enjoy character education when character education lesson plans and character education activities hang on ...
Teen Best-seller Helps You Teach Responsibility
Date with Responsibility was awarded two honors by Amazon.com: • #1 Best-selling Teen Romance Novel • Top 100 Overall Best-seller Teenagers love this book, and can’t put it down, even though it gives them strong responsibility training. The key character is a teen girl – seventeen (17) years old – who is unwittingly involved in rape and an ensuing pregnancy. Date with Responsibility teaches teens and preteens responsibility in chores, academics, dating, sexual relationships, finances, and more – all woven subtly into an exciting plot. Companion Teen Book Also Teaches Responsibility. Passport to Courage, a second teen novel features a 16-year-old teen boy who faces arrest ...
Character Catalog
[print_link] Welcome to Character-in-Action® Character Catalog Official catalog of our printed and downloadable books, lesson plans, and supplemental resources. This official catalog of our complete line of books, lesson plans, and supplemental resources is not available in printed form since it changes frequently. We cannot send you a printed catalog. To print current catalog information for your files, please click on the button at the upper right that reads: “Print This Page”. All information in the catalog will print. Books, lesson plans, and supplemental materials are all listed according to age group, from preschool up to and including adults. Purchase directly from ...
Character Books
Character Books Written Expressly to Build Character You know that story characters and story material condition our minds. The ancients of Greek and Rome knew that, too, and told stories to teach important moral values. Character stories condition minds to desire and build character. They make character building more interesting and more memorable. Scroll down, and you will find character books for every age, from toddlers to and including adults. Character Books for Ages 3-8 Character Companions® Books make character education “funeffective” – fun and effective for teachers and students. Your character building efforts become exciting, yielding big results with a small investment ...
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Character for Every Age
Character Building for Every Age!Character building is, say some, only for children from Kindergarten to age ten....
Character Vs. Get-off-the-Hook Apologies
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Character Traits
List of Character Traits
The list of character traits below contains sixty-six character traits that people of character exercise, all in an easy-to-use alphabetical table. A list of character traits is essential for effective character education lesson plans as well as creation of character education classroom activities. It is vital in personal character building as well. Lists... [Read more of this review]
Character Trait Definitions
Character traits have in common particular elements. We do not attempt to list them all, but you will want to make note of five major similarities: 1. Understanding flowing into desire and then action. All character traits are built intellectually first. We must understand the trait. Understanding flows into desire for the trait. Desire leads to action... [Read more of this review]
Character Traits Make a Whopping Difference!
Character traits – what are they? Simply put, character traits are the qualities that show an individual to be a person of high moral values. They are the distinguishing marks that tell us whether a person has character, i.e. high moral values. Character traits are the basis for family values training. Character traits are the basis of authentic... [Read more of this review]
List of Character Traits Unfettered
A list of character traits should never be fettered by the whims of a single group. Men and women who gather and reach a consensus as to what moral values to include may very well satisfy themselves, but they can mislead others. Restriction of a list of character traits to consensus ethical values must assume that the group of individuals gathered to... [Read more of this review]
Character Traits and Their Consequences
Character traits come with consequences – always – every time. Consult a list of character traits, and you will soon see this. You might think the consequences are always pleasant when we exercise character traits, unpleasant when we fail to exercise such qualities. But is that true? Do we always receive agreeable things in return for doing what... [Read more of this review]
Teaching Respect – Its Importance to Family
Teaching respect is an important part of family values training and character building. Even if a school, club, or other group is teaching respect to your children or teenagers, it is important that you reinforce that instruction at home. Teaching respect benefits the entire family by producing greater harmony among family members. Amazingly, teaching... [Read more of this review]
Teaching Kindness to Overcome Intolerance and Violence
Teaching kindness is an important requirement of character education and, therefore, vital to peace education. Those who want peace need to overcome intolerance and violence. Those who teach peace must teach character traits that will produce tolerance and non-violence. Kindness is one of those character traits. Intolerance How can teaching kindness... [Read more of this review]
Fairness Doesn’t Always Seem Fair
Fairness is a character trait. Character education teachers teach fairness. Parents teach fairness. Many religious leaders and club leaders teach fairness, but did you know that fairness is often misunderstood? Children yell, “That isn’t fair!” Teens sound off about unfairness, too, but do young people really understand fairness? Give the Dog... [Read more of this review]
Perseverance – Not Just for Ants, Rams, and Snails
Perseverance is a character trait – a character trait of ants, rams, and snails? Did you ever watch an ant carry a large cookie crumb to some far away nest? Maybe you commented on the ant’s heavy load, but did you think about her perseverance? Did you ever see a ram try to butt its way through a fence? You may have laughed as he banged his head... [Read more of this review]
Teach Responsibility? Who Cares?
Responsibility is a moral value. Responsibility is a family value. It is one of the high moral values we call character traits. But who cares? We all should care! Parents should care enough to teach responsibility to children. Teachers should care enough to teach responsibility to students. Employers should care enough to teach responsibility to employees. Teach... [Read more of this review]
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