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Parenting for Life Values
excerpt from the book WHAT ARE LIFE VALUES?Life Values are the conscious and unconscious mental attitudes and behavioral habits that define awareness. When we are young, our Life Values are initially defined by our physical needs and wants. As we grow, we engage our world and interpret information and experiences for the purpose of fulfilling ever-expanding needs defining healthy physical, emotional, social aesthetic and spiritual development. Abraham Maslow’s work in the 20th century helped to clarify the range of needs that shape the human experience. His hierarchy of needs has been re-interpreted by many researchers through the years, yet his major contribution to the study of human behavior clearly validates that we are governed by a variety of needs that emerge as we take on those qualities of the human experience that shape us to be a person of integrity guided by Life Values ethical intelligence. Clearly, human beings have the capacity to discover and practice perennial, Life Values that shape their evolving call to higher order need fulfillment. As an individual persistently practices Life Values for significant living, these values become the daily mental habits and actions that others observe and experience as a person’s character. When we say a person exhibits trustworthiness, compassion, fairness, respect, or other important virtues, these attributes of a noble character are learned and practiced by the steady two-steps-forward-one-step-back process of demonstrating a life of integrity. Every person pursuing a life of integrity discovers that they have been positively influenced by character mentors who provide guidance and support for the journey of self-governance. USING YOUR JOURNALThe journal is a personal parenting tool to be a constant reminder and companion for parenting’s Big Picture. Your journal is your parenting guide from 30,000 feet! Its intention is to be a constant reminder of your parenting journey’s destination. The journal focuses your attention on seven character mentoring engraving tasks. As a character mentor coach to your child, you are engraving seven Life Values habits. Your work is your promise to influence your child to become shaped by seven thought & behavioral habits…
These performance character assets are required Life Skills learning your child must acquire to become tomorrow’s citizen of character. Your parenting job is to equip your child with seven integrity assets. You equip as you continue to equip yourself. This means that the assets are at work in your life, as you remind yourself that you cannot teach what you do not know. This does not mean you are flawless as a parent. It means you don’t give up on yourself or your child as you daily pursue your parenting promises. The simple structure of the seven chapters has been created to provide primer parenting information for your engraving work. Your journal is your companion that focuses your attention on one overarching theme, Goodness. Dennis Prager is one of America’s finest voices of clarity on moral and ethical thought. He speaks to audiences throughout the United States. Often, he speaks to parents. When he does, Dennis will ask a question of his audience that sounds like this: “If you could choose one outcome of your parenting work and you knew that you could only choose one, which one of these three outcomes would be the focus of your parenting life? Would you parent to raise a happy child? Would you parent to raise a good child? Would you parent to raise a successful child? Overwhelmingly, the response of his audiences is raising happy or successful children, not a good child. His follow up question penetrates the problem of those two answers. What parenting outcome do you have the greatest opportunity to influence? Clearly, it is our fond parenting desires that our children become happy and successful adults, but resting our parenting influence and effort on these two outcomes is not so clearly on the radar screen of our parenting influence as is the influence of raising a good child. Parenting for goodness, as Mr. Prager states, is about the work of communicating values lessons that continuously engage a child’s mind with the necessary thought habits and behaviors to support a child’s movement into adulthood with life skills information. This journal is written with the purpose of focusing on your parenting engraving role as a guide for developing your child to become a good person…which means a person who carries Life Values that demonstrate integrity. Intentionally used and visited often, your Parenting Promises Journal can become a constant companion, helping you fulfill your fundamental parenting responsibility. To make a purchase, select the quantity amount and click the "Add to Cart" button. You will go to the PayPal site where you can adjust the quantity and finalize your purchase.
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