Values

Parenting Values

Cannabis-Teach Your Children Well

This article is excerpted from the book: The Pot Book edited by Dr. Julie Holland, M.D.by Julie Holland M.D. Psychospiritual exploration, soul-searching, communing with the self — these are normal and important Components of the human experience. Adolescence is a prime time for this sort of exploration, and for questioning, testing limits, and defying both death and authority. The chances that your kids aren’t going to have to tangle with cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs are virtually nil. Drugs are a bit like...

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How to Raise a Happy Child

by Sylvia Rimm.

The complexity of today's parenting makes it important to develop some basic principles to guide parents. In Dr. Sylvia Rimm's book Smart Parenting, four chapters emphasize the foundational concepts that can help parents raise happy, achieving children. She has now developed a top ten list to summarize essential principles to assist parents.

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Elders: The Missing Link

Bret Stephensonby Bret Stephenson. Traditional societies transmitted to the young not only lineage and survival information but also the beliefs and expectations of the culture. This system perpetuated the health, longevity, and survival of the community and its values. To do this, it was critical to have...

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American Children

David Walsh, Ph.D.

by David Walsh, Ph.D. Each of us as parents must identify the values we have intentionally taught and displayed to our children. But, we must also ask ourselves another question: What values have we as a society taught our children? Every morning when we pick up our newspapers we see more and more of the consequences of this "education". We know that our kids are in deep trouble because of what we as a society have done.

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A Season of Hope and Battle

Johann Christoph Arnold by Johann Christoph Arnold. For years, psychologists, educators and church leaders have warned about subversive and decadent influences on children in our society. In my books on parenting, I have pointed to these dangers and suggested that the greatest trap is not anger or abhorrence, but indifference.

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