Growing up in a different world: How do we teach values 33 Articles

by Carolyn Tytler

The world of preteens and teenagers today is downright scary to those of us grew up in the mid to latter part of the twentieth century. Schools are no longer safe havens, young thugs involved in gang wars threaten pedestri...read more

by Carol Gioia

The world is different, but the values we want to teach our children are identical to the values of the "Good Old Days." Honesty, respect, consideration, loyalty, thoughtfulness - the list goes on. Sometimes we view w...read more

by Charles Johnson

When people did not live next door years ago, there only one way the children was able to learn about real life, their parents were their teachers. This was based on what their parents told them as they were raised and as ...read more

by Lowell Frederick

Teaching children a value system in today's world is challenging at best. There are many circumstances today that were not talked about in previous generations. Furthermore, with the technological advances of today our c...read more

by Alyssa Boschee

]Growing Up In A Different World: How Do We Teach Values? A year ago I would have told you that there was no way I would want to bring life to a world that seems to have taken a path of total self destruction. After recov...read more

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by Candy Jules

Yes, we are growing up in a whole different world, but the values should still be the same. They worked for our parents, for us, and hopefully for our children and grandchildren. The Laws and society put a lot of pressu...read more

by Robert Macready Thomas

There is only so much reasoning with a child. Respect for others and for property normally requires a touch of fear as well. I was born in 1952, in Dundee, Scotland. Brought up in a good Catholic household, the phrase "...read more

by Rosemary Redfern

There are assumptions being made in this title because there are three aspects to it. Do we assume the question asks how we teach children or is it for everybody of whatever age? Secondly, the world has frequently been ...read more

by Charu Mehrotra

Teaching values to your kids in today's changing world is a challenging task! Every parent has a dream to raise a confident, smart, educated, healthy kid who has certain beliefs in the family values and culture. You cannot...read more

by Andrew Garlisi

Our children are the foundations of our society; as such they are vital to the various cultures of our planet. Children today are challenged, influenced and confused by a bombardment of stimuli from a variety of sources: ...read more

by Gina Barr

ADOLESCENCE AND EVOLUTION When I was thirteen, I was attending a Jr. High in a big Texas city. I was somewhat popular, even though I was goofy and not really interested in the social scene. Never you mind, I ended up ...read more

by Cristy Hebert

There are two important expressions when we talk about teaching values to our kids: "words are cheap baby" and "actions speak louder than words"! Kids don't learn values from their parents by having them repeat and repeat ...read more

by Missy Warrens

Values aren't taught there instilled and sought after. As children it doesn't take us long to begin looking for the good in people. We desire comfort, reliability, the warm feeling of love that you get when you are surroun...read more

by Diane Pfenninger

We teach values from the old school because it is a very different world today. Children need to be taught that while some change is good and some bad, that there are certain things that are not ever supposed to change. Su...read more

by Patricia Rothrock

Every parent questions how they are going to raise their children. As well, every parent sets high expectations and remarkably those parents find rather quickly that they will not meet those expectations. So as a parent my...read more

by Nadia Ghanny

During our formative years parents are responsible for instilling values such as discipline, honesty, responsibility, gratitude, politeness, generosity, love, respect just to name a few. As caregivers, they are responsibl...read more

by Dazed n Confused

It is growing increasingly hard to teach children values. This is mainly due to the world we live in today. I was lucky enough to grow up in a family where I had parents who were, and still are married - to each other, wh...read more

by Christy V

I am raising an eight year old girl in today's world...a bit scary. At eight my daughter knows about as much as I did at thirteen. I know the world cannot stay the same, it has to evolve, so I expect her to be more advan...read more

by Katrina Mumin

We live in the same world as our fore parents. We teach values by living values. Example has always been and still is the best teacher. As parents, we have to know what our values are, and not guess at them when a situa...read more

by Amelia Love

Halfway through the school year, I was exhausted and disillusioned. I had begun the year with such enthusiasm, thinking nothing of spending my own money to provide the students with the best. Now I glanced around me. Th...read more