Some Strategies to Help Your Children Develop Good Character Model good character in the home

• Be clear about your values
• Show respect for your spouse, your children, and other family members.
• Model and teach your children good manners.
• Have family meals together without television as often as possible
• Plan as many family activities as possible.
• Don’t provide your children access to alcohol or drugs
• Plan family service projects or civic activities.
• Read to our children and keep good literature in the home.
• Limit your children’s spending money.
• Discuss the holidays and their meanings.
• Capitalize on the “teachable moment.”
• Assign home responsibilities to all family members.
• Set clear expectations for your children and hold them accountable for their actions.
• Learn to say no and mean it.
• Know where your children are, what they are doing, and with whom.
• Keep your children busy in positive activities.
• Refuse to cover for your children or make excuses for their inappropriate behavior.
• Know what television shows, videos, and movies your children are watching
• Remember that you are the adult!