San Antonio College Library

Explores the minds of children focusing on their consciences and moral awareness.

The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.

Best known as The Family Coach, Dr. Lynne Kenney shows parents of children ages 3 to 8 (the critical years for developing values and behavior patterns) how to create specific, foundational life skills that will stay with children through good times and bad. Combining the practicality of Supernanny with the creative problem solving of a super sleuth, Dr. Kenney helps busy families of young children identify core values and create long-term, practical...

"In Right vs. Wrong - Raising a Child with a Conscience, three child-rearing experts offer useful advice for nurturing the conscience in children and adolescents. Written for parents, guardians, and all who work with young people, this book charts the growth of the sense of right and wrong in children from early youth through the teenage years. The authors describe the important events in moral development and identify five transformations during...

"Without relying on didactic theory, sermonizing, or abstract philosophy, Dr. Borba offers a new way to understand, evaluate, and inspire our kids with the Seven Essential Virtues that comprise Moral Intelligence: empathy, conscience, self-control, respect, kindness, tolerance, and fairness. Buildinq Moral Intelligence gives parents and teachers practical self-tests for measuring their kids' status and progress and includes helpful step-by-step guidelines....

Though it is generally acknowledged that parents are directly implicated in how and what their children learn about right and wrong, little is known about how the process of moral socialization proceeds in the context of family life, and how it gets played out in actual parent-child conversations. This volume brings together psychological research conducted in different countries documenting how parents and their children of different ages talk about...

Enter into a dynamic discussion on moral development as hosted by a group of teens who give their opinions on moral situations they have faced. Between the group's discussion times, an expert highlights moral development as it progresses in children. A definition of morality, reasons for the decisions we make, and a look at the behavior of real children in a child care center are all covered in this fast-paced, informative video.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel and historian and Open mind host Richard D. Heffner examine the moral responsibility of the private person in dealing with many critical issues facing us today. Their inquiry ranges into topics such as ethnic cleansing, Israeli and Arab nationalism, euthanasia, genetic engineering, the Holocaust, and capital punishment.

"Psychological research shows that our emotions and feelings often guide the moral decisions we make about our own lives and the social groups to which we belong. But should we be concerned that our important moral judgments can be swayed by "hot" passions, such as anger, disgust, guilt, shame and sympathy? Aren't these feelings irrational and counterproductive? Using a functional conflict theory of emotions (FCT), Giner-Sorolla proposes that each...