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A Father's Unity of Life
Successful fathers are smart, effec-tive leaders at home as well as on the job. Their strengths of character impress their children as much as their colleagues at work. Their devotion to their family, in fact, gives meaning and purpose to their strenuous life of professional work. Read more...

Why Worry About Virtues?
A virtue is a good active habit.  A virtue is that thing we love to find in others towards us but it is a thing awfully difficult to develop in our lives. We all like others to be under-standing, generous, loyal, sincere and just to us. Read more...

Virtues

We are continually educating in virtue; many virtues are interconnected. This table shows the key virtues that parents tackle and should develop in the different age ranges in order to raise happy, mature adults. Read more...

Discipline
The word "discipline" is related to the word "disciple," and it springs from the Latin word meaning "to learn." Discipline is what happens when some leader teaches and his "disciples" learn. Broadly speaking, discipline means teaching and learning, leading and joining. Read more...

The Minds and Hearts of Adolescents

Adolescence is an immensely important time of life. Experience with forming young people shows that the habits formed, the friends made, and the ideals enkindled during adolescence all have lifelong con-sequences. Read more...

Culture of Life in the Family

Human and spousal pro-creativity has a totally unique significance...  It is the achievement of two artists together who create a joint work of love en-dowed with immortality. No artist, no scientist, can act on that level; parents can. Read more...

Parent Leaders
Effective parent look at their children and picture them 20 years from now, as grown men and women with job and family responsibilities of their own. They seem to understand a truth of life: Children will tend to grow up to our expectations or down to them. Read more...

Parenting for Character

Good parents do more than give their children affection and provide for their needs. They must plan how they will shape their children’s character, says Andrew Mullins. Read more...

Professionalism
The items below are the sort of idealistic and practical work-related lessons that effective parents teach their adoles-cent children to prepare them for entering the world of work.
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A family with personality! 

Are your children attracted more to neighbouring houses or are neighbouring children drawn more to yours?  Or are yours and theirs drawn more to the nearest malls? 
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What is Maturity?

Maturity is many things... It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later... One of the characteristics of the young is, “I want it now.” Grown-up people can wait.
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