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Building Moral Intelligence

The Seven Essential Virtues that Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing
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Building Moral Intelligence by Michele Borba presents a groundbreaking approach to understanding and cultivating virtues, character, and values as a measurable ability called moral intelligence. Addressing urgent issues like youth violence, alienation, and intolerance, the book offers parents a practical, step-by-step programme designed to nurture seven essential moral virtues that inspire compassion, sensitivity, and integrity in children.
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This book is ideal for parents, educators, and caregivers who want to actively teach and reinforce essential virtues and moral character in children to address contemporary challenges in youth behaviour and values.

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Helps parents gain an understanding of moral intelligence, and a program for its achievement. This book shows how to conceptualize and teach virtue, character and values.

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Gain a new understanding of moral intelligence, and a step-by-step programme for its achievement from bestselling author, Michele Borba. In this indispensable book for parents, Borba has created a new breakthrough in conceptualising and teaching virtue, character, and values under the auspices of a measurable capacity—Moral Intelligence.

This book confronts the front-page crisis we now face in our country regarding youth violence, alienation, self-destructive behaviour, cold-heartedness, lack of compassion, insensitivity, intolerance, and the breakdown of values. The author provides a new way to understand, evaluate, and inspire our kids with the seven essential virtues which comprise moral intelligence.

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Praised by Library Journal for its confident authority and practical guidance, this book is recommended for public libraries seeking meaningful resources on character education. Foreword author Thomas Lickona applauds its wealth of insights and family-friendly tools, while Thomas Armstrong highlights its importance as an antidote to growing societal incivility and a valuable resource for parents committed to fostering moral intelligence in their children.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780787962265

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 October 2002

Country: United States

Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 175.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 567g

Pages: 336

About the Author

The Author

Michele Borba, Ed.D., a former classroom teacher, is an internationally renowned consultant and educator who has presented workshops to over half a million participants. She is the recipient of the National Educator Award and the author of eighteen books including Parents Do Make a Difference (Jossey-Bass), which was named by Child Magazine as an "outstanding parenting book of the year." She is a frequent guest expert on television and National Public Radio talk shows including The View, Fox & Friends, and The Parent Table. She is an expert columnist for Oxygen Media, honorary advisory board member for Parents magazine, and is quoted in numerous national publications. She lives in Palm Springs, California with her husband and three teenage sons. On the web at www.MicheleBorba.com or www.moralintelligence.com

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