Character Development Isn't Easy

HOW CAN LIFE'S BUILDING BLOCKS AND THE GAMES AND BOOKS HELP YOU DEVELOP THE CHARACTER AND MORAL REASONING OF YOUR CHILD?

1. Life's Building Blocks can help you educate yourself so you can help your child.
2. We have "Adult Guides" with each product to help you understand the developmental aspects of the product. These are guides are short, concise, and give you specific questions to ask your child to allow you to take advantage of the "teachable moments."
3. Throughout the products are dialogues that can help your child (subtly) understand the moral aspects of the games and books, while having fun using them.
4. The products of Life's Building Blocks have three important aspects:
   1. They are fun!
   2. They provide a chance for parents and children to interact
   3. They give the child a chance to think about issues of character (how my virtues help me make a decision) and morals (what is the right thing to do, and why did I decide that?)
   In many of these products, the child is placed in an imagined scenario (a moral dilemma). The child will reason through that scenario and make a choice between two or more options. At the point when the child says what he or she would do, there opens up a "teachable moment." It is important that the adult be present for this moment. If the adult asks the right question to the child (for example: "Why did you decide to do that?" or "What if everyone did that?") there exists a rare chance to help the child understand why they did what they did. This will help them improve their moral reasoning skills.
5. Specifically, Life's Building Blocks Products develop morals and character by:
   1. Helping children understand the consequences of their poor decisions
   2. Helping children understand why some actions are wrong regardless of the consequences
   3. Helping child recognize bad behavior when they see it
   4. Helping them listen to the little voice in their head: their moral conscience. (Hopefully the voice tells them the right thing!)
   5. Understanding higher and lower levels of reasoning
   6. Challenging their wrong answers
   7. Holding them to high standards
   8. Showing them role models of exemplary behavior
   9. Understanding the virtues of their character and helping them see ways to strengthen those virtues and improve their characters

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