Greater Good Parenting

Raising Caring, Courageous Kids

Honesty

How to Encourage Your Kids to Be Honest

Encouraging Kids Toward Honesty

Honesty Commitments for Kids

Three Ways You Can Help Your Kid Be More Honest

Two Ways to Nudge Your Kids Toward Honesty

Families Building Communities of Compassion

Camp Kindness Counts

Redmond, WA, United States

Families Building Communities of Compassion

Camp Kindness Counts believes in the power of kindness and provides opportunities for families to practice and nurture character strengths such as forgiveness, generosity, and compassion in their daily lives. Support is provided through Family Service Events, camps, parenting workshops, and resource pages on their website. Their Kind World Explorers initiative provides research-based activity guidebooks and enrichment opportunities for families globally as both a tool for character development and community-building.

Website: https://www.campkindnesscounts.org/kind-world

Strengths: Compassion,  Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  Honesty,  Humility,  Love,  Purpose,  and Reliability

Igniting the Power of Families to Support Prosocial Skill Development through a Texting Program

Family Engagement Lab

San Francisco, CA, United States

Igniting the Power of Families to Support Prosocial Skill Development through a Texting Program

The current program expands upon our evidence-based, text message program for schools, FASTalk (Families and Schools Talk), to allow families and children to develop and practice literacy skills within the context of developing key prosocial skills.

Website: http://www.familyengagementlab.org/

Strengths: Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  Honesty,  Love,  and Reliability

Like a Sponge Podcast | DIY Family Engagement Lecture Series

GreatSchools

Oakland, CA, USA

Like a Sponge Podcast | DIY Family Engagement Lecture Series

Season two of GreatSchools’ podcast Like a Sponge is all about the science of teaching kids character. An accompanying series of free family engagement presentations offers any school, district, or parent organization the ability to give talks that will educate and spark conversations about the big issues that really matter when it comes to raising the next generation.

Website: https://www.greatschools.org/gk/family-engagment-talks-presentations/

Strengths: Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  Honesty,  Humility,  Love,  and Purpose

Criando Niños Valientes y Cariñosos

Pinyon Foundation

Santa Fe, NM, United States

Criando Niños Valientes y Cariñosos

Pinyon Foundation has teamed up with Hispanic Communications Network to develop resources and materials in Spanish to empower parents and caregivers to teach children character strengths.

Website: https://www.laredhispana.org/actualidades/cmo-criar-nios-valientes-y-cariosos

Strengths: Compassion,  Forgiveness,  Generosity,  Gratitude,  Honesty,  Humility,  Love,  Purpose,  and Reliability

Greater Good Parenting Guide

Compassion

Compassion:

Noticing and feeling motivated to help relieve suffering.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness:

Freely choosing to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed us, giving up the desire or power to punish.

Generosity

Generosity:

Not simply giving but giving more than is expected in a situation, incurring a cost to promote someone else’s welfare.

Gratitude

Gratitude:

Acknowledging the gifts and benefits we’ve received and recognizing that the sources of this goodness come from outside of ourselves.

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Humility

Humility:

Being able to see and accept one’s own strengths and limitations without defensiveness or judgment.

Love

Love:

Serving others without expectation of reward or repayment, not limited to romantic relationships.

Purpose

Purpose:

Intending to do something that feels personally meaningful and is also directed toward improving the lives of others.

Reliability

Reliability:

Being consistently good in quality or performance; behaving responsibly, by actually doing what we pledge to do.

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