Coaching Character at Home: Stategies for Raising Responsible Teens - Softcover

Koehler PH.D., Michael D; Koehler, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893732487 ISBN 13: 9781893732483

Publisher: Sorin Books, U.S., 2003

Synopsis

Character education is a hot topic. Insensitivity, self-indulgence, self-focus, materialism, sexual license, and violence corrupt our society. Role models who influence and shape our children possess a 'me first' mentality, a sense that the individual is entitled to satisfy every desire, without regard for others. Negative influences threaten to overwhelm, and parents are struggling to counter them. Today's parenting is all about character building--knowing and wanting to do the right thing, and then actually doing it. In Coaching Character: Strategies for Raising Responsible Teens, Michael Koehler shares his program of character education based upon the Seven C's of Character. Koehler became familiar with these strategies as a young athlete and continued to use and develop them throughout his career as an educator, school administrator, and high school football coach. Koehler defines the Seven Cs as: * Connectedness: shared enthusiasm for a common interest * Control: self-control, self-reflection, self-evaluation, and self-correction * Commitment: personal investment, complete and focused involvement * Consistency: firmness of purpose, the refusal to quit * Cooperation: the willingness to work with others, to share success and failure * Conscience: empathy for others, understanding the difference between right and wrong * Competition: the willingness to make the effort to win and to realize that this effort is more important than the outcome Parents can use these same principles to instill character in their children, and Koehler shows parents how to do it. Coaching Character is a comprehensive guide that includes lively discussion, helpful and entertaining pointers, and sample dialogues, plus personal stories and anecdotes from Koehler's personal experience. Koehler's advice is knowledgeable, sympathetic, clear confident, practical, and time-tested.

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"Mike Koehler has dedicated himself to bringing character to the national spotlight, where it belongs, and to bettering the lives of young people in America."

Edition details

• Publisher: Sorin Books, U.S.
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1893732487
• ISBN 13: 9781893732483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222