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Tables of Contents for Character Building
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Prologue: The permanent value of the family
1
1
The family is so efficient
2
1
The family: a group of persons who share
3
1
Security and permanence
4
1
Personal style
5
1
The family as first school of human virtues
5
1
The unity of the family
6
1
Conclusion
7
4
INTRODUCTION: Training children in human virtues
11
260
A word about terminology
11
1
Why parents should be concerned about virtues
12
1
How to increase commitment to developing virtue
13
1
Two problems
14
1
Virtues, ages and motivations
15
2
Up to seven years old
17
1
From eight to twelve years old
18
1
From thirteen to fifteen years old
19
1
From sixteen to eighteen years old
20
1
Conclusion
21
2
Generosity
23
10
Appreciating what we have
23
2
Motives for generosity
25
2
The needs of others
27
1
Giving
28
1
Generosity and love
28
5
Fortitude
33
10
Endurance
34
3
Indifference
37
1
Enterprise
38
1
Difficulties in teaching fortitude
39
4
Optimism
43
9
Optimism based on confidence
43
3
Realism and improvement
46
6
Perseverance
52
10
Developing habits
53
1
As time passes
53
2
Other difficulties
55
1
Necessary and unnecessary help
56
1
Perseverance in the Christian life
57
5
Orderliness
62
10
Good example
62
1
Proper use of time
63
2
Tidiness
65
2
Doing things
67
1
Final remarks
68
4
Responsibility
72
10
Responsibility for one's own deliberate actions
73
2
Responsibility and decisions
75
2
Unintentional actions
77
1
Concern for others
78
4
Respect for others
82
10
Friends, companions and strangers
83
4
Relationships with parcents
87
5
Sincerity
92
11
Seeing things as they are
93
3
Distortions of the truth
96
2
Falsifying the facts
98
1
Practising the virtue of sincerity
99
4
Modesty
103
12
The importance of privacy
103
2
Modesty in practice
105
3
External influences
108
1
Teaching modesty
109
6
Moderation
115
10
The consumer society
116
3
Using our time
119
2
Parents and teenage children
121
4
Flexibility
125
9
Flexibility and firmness
126
1
Firmness and flexibility in relationships
127
1
Adapting our behaviour
128
1
Teaching flexibility
129
5
Loyalty
134
10
The relationship of loyalty
135
1
Recognising relationships
136
2
Compatible relationships
138
1
Learning to be loyal
139
1
Relationships and personal freedom
140
4
Industriousness
144
12
Work and other duties
144
1
Doing things diligently
145
1
Problems involved in getting things done
146
1
The problem of motivation
147
2
Motives and ages
149
2
The child's sheer ability to do what he is asked to
151
1
Two vices
152
4
Patience
156
12
The influence of the environment
156
2
Stage one
158
1
Motives for being patient
159
1
Patience at different ages: small children
160
2
Older children
162
1
Being patient with children
163
5
Justice
168
10
A few points about the notion of justice
168
1
Children's relationship with others
169
1
Justice up to the age of nine
170
1
From nine to thirteen
171
1
The reasons for being just
172
1
Taking account of each person's circumstances
173
1
Older children
173
1
Parents' justice
174
1
Final remarks
175
3
Obedience
178
10
The permissive society
178
2
Motives for being obedient
180
1
Obedience up to the age of thirteen
181
1
What parents should do
182
2
Obedience in the case of older children
184
4
Prudence
188
11
Prudence and parents themselves
188
2
Developing the virtue of prudence
190
1
Sizing up the situation
190
3
Knowing how to judge
193
2
Making decisions
195
4
Audacity
199
8
Conditions for audacity
200
1
Discovering noble goals
201
2
The problem of prudence
203
1
The Christian virtue
203
4
Humility
207
9
Sufficient humility
208
1
Abundant humility
209
1
Self-sufficiency
209
1
In relationships with others
210
2
Superabundant humility
212
4
Simplicity
216
10
Letting oneself be known
216
1
The simplicity of small children
217
1
The experience of being natural
218
1
Simplicity and teenagers
219
1
Obstacles to simplicity
220
2
The way simplicity expresses itself
222
4
Sociability
226
8
Getting on well with and being interested in others
226
3
Communicating with other people
229
1
Sociability and solidarity
230
4
Friendship
234
11
Friendship: conditions and characteristics
235
2
Friends at different ages
237
1
Friendship and the other human virtues
238
2
The family's role
240
1
The parents' example
241
1
Conclusion
241
4
Understanding
245
9
Empathy
246
1
Conditions for being understanding
246
1
Teaching people to be perceptive
247
2
Showing that one understands
249
5
Patriotism
254
17
Patriotic feeling
255
1
Supporting and defending values
256
2
Recognising the noble aspirations of all other countries
258
3
APPENDIXES
Character building in schools
261
6
Short descriptions of virtues
267
4
Notes
271