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Raising Children of Character | Ten-Week Course for Parents (Study Edition)

The character education schools now teach, rewritten for the kitchen table. A guided ten-week course for parents of children aged roughly five to fourteen, written by a former head teacher who spent thirty years teaching character in real classrooms — and standing in his own kitchen at 7.40am negotiating about shoes. Ten twenty-minute lessons — one virtue or arena each: how character is actually formed, respect, honesty, courage, perseverance, kindness and gratitude, self-control and screens, friendships and fallouts, money, and your own family character plan. Each lesson ends with one concrete practice for the week, talk starters for the table and the car, a note for when it's harder for your child, and a plain, carefully-checked note on when to seek help. Evidence-informed and honest about what the research does and doesn't show; safeguarding guidance reviewed and aligned with current UK practice. Includes the full references and a printable one-page Family Character Plan worksheet your family can run term after term. Secular, warm, judgement-free — every mistake in this course is one the author has personally made. Digital edition (PDF), licensed for use within the purchasing household.