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

The prequel that completes the Raising Character series — for the years when character is caught, not taught. A guided ten-week course for parents of little ones, roughly two to five, written by a former head teacher who spent thirty years meeting four- and five-year-olds on their first morning of school and could see what the well-built ones arrived carrying. Ten twenty-minute lessons: the copying engine (you are the curriculum), warmth and boundaries together (and tantrums as weather, not war), truth in little people, little braveries, the first perseverance, the first kindness, waiting and wanting, play as the work, the words that build people — including the calm, unfrightening safety vocabulary every child should own — and the Foundations Plan that carries it all to the school gate. Each lesson ends with one tiny practice for the week, talk starters for books and bath time, 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 aligned with current practice in England, reviewed through multiple specialist-informed rounds. No punishment-based methods, no milestone checklists, no perfect-parent standard. Includes full references and a printable one-page Family Character Plan (Little Ones Edition). Digital edition (PDF), licensed for use within the purchasing household. Stands alone; leads naturally into Raising Children of Character (5–14).