I just started reading this book and we are going to be working on it throughout the coming year. The book contains tools and techniques to teach your family 12 major values. It is laid out so that you can focus on one value each month for a year and then start all over again if you want to. I figured I'd blog about it and keep everyone posted about how we are doing on our quest to teach the Tilton Bunch Values.
The book opens up answering some general questions and giving the author's thoughts on creating this book. Their first chapter is called "Why? When? Where? Who? What? and How?" A few great tidbits from this chapter include the following quotes:
"We should teach values to our children because it is the most significant and effective thing we can do for their happiness."
They offer a definition:
"A true and universally acceptable 'value' is one that produces behavior that is beneficial both to the practitioner and to those on whom it is practiced."
They further, offer some criteria that separates it from other good behaviors we should teach our children.
"A value is a quality distinguished by: (a) its ability to multiply and increase in our possession even as it is given away; and (b) the fact (even the law) that the more it is given to others, the more it will be returned by others and received by ourselves."
So...
"Values, then, are other-and-self-benefiting qualities that are given as they are gained and gained as they are given."
The 12 values can be taught in any order and whenever we deem appropriate or needed in a particular month. January is the month we are teaching our family HONESTY!
Welcome to our newest Journey!
1 comment:
I did the Biology tv course at UVU, too. I found that if I paced myself and really watched and took notes in the study guide book thing it was a fairly easy course. Good luck to you! Being a mom and a student is a lot of work, but so worth it!
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