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 of character [...]
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 [...]
Perseverance unto Death
They married on October 25, 1928. He was twenty-one years old, going on twenty-two. She was nineteen. He was a fun-loving, adventurous, hard-working, and frugal young man. She was a hard-working, frugal young woman who had little time for adventure. As for fun, she often warned, “Never laugh before breakfast!” as she worried around the [...]
Teaching Kindness to Destroy Bullying
Teaching kindness is a part of raising children. It is a part of teaching toddler through teen ages. Along with teaching kindness, parents and teachers often get involved in a fight to destroy bullying. In a recent study, 77% of students said they had been bullied. Think about it. Out of every four students in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 overcome intolerance? First, we [...]
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 a Bone Fairness means [...]
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 [...]
