20 Character Building Thoughts For Children

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. ~Brian Tracy In the midst of making our children successful academically, socially and economically we have completely disregarded the significance of structured character education. This is one of the key reasons why our children have hard time to breathe in fresh air. Today, the grave issues such as youth violence, gang activity, school dropouts, juvenile delinquency, and teen pregnancy are lurking everywhere putting entire future generation at stake. Character is the foundation on which our entire life is built; therefore, instilling the values of respect, honesty, integrity, responsibility, equality, sincerity, compassion, and citizenship reinforce a better and stronger social structure. It is high time for us as parents to encourage and assist our children to develop the required qualities and initiate adopting the following thoughts: 1. I am the person of my definition regardless of imperfections where my beauty and genius lies. I feel energetic riding on my own distinct spirit; I feel enlightened with the light of my inner guidance; I am bitby-bit ORIGINAL made of my sincerity for being myself. 2. I treat people the way I wish to be treated. I stand for my own values, love, compassion, sincerity, generosity, loyalty and equality. They are my guiding stars that lead me to the right path. 3. Every person deserves courtesy and kind consideration; therefore I give constructive criticism as well as compliments while being involved in a conversation. If I feel I cant, then I prefer to be silent than being involved in an unnecessary gossip. 4. Whenever I feel low and distressed I dont nurture negative thoughts; I rather prefer to take assistance of my positive thoughts that have profound influence on my day-to-day decisions. 5. Whenever I indulge in my neat, beautiful and profound insights, I find my liberty of being happy has not been compromised in any way; because I believe true happiness lies in sharing. It enriches my knowledge and makes me wiser. 6. I feel I am successful as I make sure my growth is consistent and progress is unstoppable. It doesnt matter how many times I fail as long as I get up and go ahead with positive attitude and stronger spirit. 7. When I reflect on my present disposition, I feel grateful and thankful for whatever I am blessed with supporting family, and good friends around. 8. I feel no temptation for controlling the external factors, I govern myself with my own discipline and external factors are automatically controlled. 9. I believe mistakes are stepping stones to success; therefore, if I make mistakes, I dont hesitate accepting and learning from them. 10. I believe life is a beautiful interval between birth and death so there is no point dragging the trivial things and wasting priceless minutes. I always try to make my life wonderful and creative, each and every day.

11. There are several terrible and unfortunate things that never happen; it is our worry that rakes them into our life. Moreover, it has abundant detrimental impact upon health, peace, love and energy. Therefore, I always try to worry less and act more. 12. I try my best to apply my time wisely, because when I use them sensibly I have enough time to spend on other significant things. 13. I never make promises lightly but Whenever I do, I try to keep them with my best possibilities. 14. I have a clear vision of my destination, I have proper plan for it and most importantly I am working on it. 15. I am polite and help my friends in their needs and I feel privileged to get helped whenever Im in need; though I dont expect it. 16. I maintain discipline that offers my mind freedom and confidence for accomplishing the seemingly impossible tasks. 17. I am flexible to change. At times, it does accompany disadvantages and discomfort but I dont get frightened as it also brings new experiences and a broader horizon for me. 18. I dont desire for excess expenses, I purchase only those things that I need; therefore I can wisely use my savings. 19. All that glitters is not gold! What I see doesnt necessarily be right, so I dont make decisions without knowing the fact. 20. True friends can change my life, so I try to be true and honest. I tell my friends the truth and acknowledge their assistance in difficult times.

Top 10 Childrens Story Books

1. Where the Wild Things Are Where the Wild Things Are is a childrens picture book written as well as illustrated by American author Maurice Sendak in 1963. As of 2011, this book had sold more than 20 million copies across the world.

Wikipedia The book brings a blend of suspense, fun and action of Max, who, in one evening, plays around his home wearing a wolf costume. His mother orders him to go to bed without supper as punishment. His real adventure starts here from his imagination. He surprisingly sees a mysterious wild forest and the sea right in front of him, and sails to the land of the Wild Things including fearsome-looking monsters, but Max shows his courage and looks fiercer than those wild animals and monsters and conquers over them; he spends longer hours playing, dancing with them. However, he soon finds himself homesick and comes back to his bedroom where he finds his delicious hot supper waiting for him. 2. The Giving Tree

Wikipedia Published by Harper and Row in 1964, The Giving Tree is a childrens book written and demonstrated by an American author of childrens books Shel Silverstein. It was one of Silversteins best children books that has been translated into over 30 languages. The Giving Tree is an example of true love and affection, portrayed through a young boy and a tree. The tree provides him with whatever he requires: The branches to play, swing, long leaves, shade to shelter him from the sun, and delicious apples to eat. When he grows, the tree permits him to cut it down to make a boat to sail. Then the boy leaves the tree, which is just a stump. Years pass by and one day the boy, who is an old man now, returns to the tree. The tree welcomes him and says that there is nothing left for him to offer. But the boy replies: I do not need much now, just a quiet place to sit and rest. The three happily offers him rest, peace and quiet place to sit and be happy. This amazing story inspires everybody to share selfless love and affection. 3. Goodnight Moon

Wikipedia Goodnight Moon, an American childrens book and a bedtime story of all age groups was written by Margaret Wise Brown, demonstrated by Clement Hurd, and published in 1947. It describes a bunnys bedtime practice of saying goodnight to the parents, and various favorite objects including red balloon, the bunnys dollhouse, and the kittens in rhyming verse for a goodnight and peaceful sleep. Its been over 6 decades, the book continues to be the favorite of parents, grandparents who use the rhyming verses to say goodnight to their children and grandchildren. The book comprises of various attractive pictures that children love the most. 4. Green Eggs and Ham

http://410bridge.org Green Eggs and Ham is known to be one of the most critically acclaimed books ever written by American writer, poet, and cartoonist Dr. Seuss. The book was first published on August 12, 1960 and according to Publishers Weekly in 2001, it was the fourth-best-selling English-language childrens book across the world. An eccentric, dog alike creature is annoyed by a smaller creature Sam I Am who asks him to taste a weird kind of food green eggs and ham but he does not accept his offer. Sam I Am is determined to make him taste and he will not stop trying until he agrees. At the end, the dog-like creature gives up and agrees to taste to satisfy Sam I Am. He tastes green eggs and ham for himself and explores that the food was really tasty. 5. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Wikipedia Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a childrens book written by an author of numerous picture books Judi Barrett and illustrated by a cartoonist and artist Ron Barrett. It was published by the Simon & Schuster in 1978. The story is about a gentle and older grandfather who informs his grandchildren about the town named Chewandswallow, where there is no grocery store, and the weather comes with delicious foods for three

times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. He offers juice through rain, ice-cream through snow and provides hamburgers through the wind. When the weather is bad, it gives people some horrible things like soggy green beans, pea soup fog, and brussels sprouts cakes. When the weather becomes worst then it gives massive amount of food that can cover buildings, squeeze homes, and block traffic. Finally, the people of Chewandswallow decide to run away from the town and very soon, they arrive in a new town, where weather does not help in getting food; it is their responsibility to get them and they struggle to adapt to their new lives in the real struggling world. 6. The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Wikipedia The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a childrens picture book written as well as illustrated and designed by Eric Carle. In 1969, the book was published by the World Publishing Company for the first time and later it was re-published by Penguin Putnam. With a wonderful imagination, the writer illustrates a story where he describes the life of a caterpillar from the moment of its place in an egg to the transformation into a beautiful butterfly. The book has been translated into more than 50 languages and has been titled with one of the greatest childhood classics of all time. 7. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is an ALA (American Library Association) Childrens Book first published in 1972. The book was written by an American author, newspaper journalist, Judith Viorst and illustrated by Ray Cruz. It is a tale of a little boy Alexander who firmly believes that all the things go wrong with him. Even before he solves a problem; he finds many more to be waiting for him. One day, his nightlight burns out at his bedtime, he bites his tongue, and his family cat thinks to sleep with Anthony, Nick takes away his pillow back and many more. He wants to move to Australia and the book ends with the assurance of his mother that everybody in this world has their own bad days as well as good ones after the bad. 8. Guess How Much I Love You

Amazon Guess How Much I Love You is a British childrens book published in 1994. The book is written by Sam McBratney and illustrated by Anita Jeram. According to its publishers, the book has received several honors with selling over 20 million copies across the world, published in total 37 languages. This is the story of two Nutbrown Hares, a Big Nutbrown Hare as well as a Little Nutbrown Hare. The significant part starts with the question of Little Nutbrown Hare to Big Nutbrown Hare Guess how much I love you?, and the tale continues as the two use big and bigger measures to evaluate how much they love each other in answer to the question. 9. Pat the Bunny

Wikipedia Pat the Bunny is a book for small children and babies written by successful childrens author Dorothy Kunhardt and published by Golden Books publisher in 1940. Ever since, Pat the Bunny has sold more than 6 million copies, which makes it the number-6 bestselling childrens book of all-time. The author wrote the book for her 3-year old daughter, Edith. It is a story of two young children Paul and Judy who do the things they like from smelling flowers to interacting with every small thing around them. With wonderful illustration, this book inspires children to love and explore the beauty of nature and the things we encounter in our daily lives. 10. Love You Forever

Wikipedia Love You Forever is a classic story of sentiment and humor written by an American-born Canadian childrens writer Robert Munsch. The book was first published in 1986. It tells the story of the evolving relationship between a boy and his mother. It is one of the All-Time Bestselling Childrens Books

worldwide. This is the story of a mother and her son. The story begins when the son has just been born and continues with how his mother takes care of him until the boy grows up. The mother swings her son to sleep singing Ill love you forever, Ill like you for always, as long as Im living my baby youll be. Later, when his mother grows old he holds his elderly mothers hand and sings Ill love you forever, Ill like you for always, as long as Im living my Mommy youll be. At the end of the story his mother dies and he is the father of a little girl, and singing the same song, his mother used to sing for him.

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Top 10 Creative Websites for Kids

Tweet Top Ten | Mousumi Kumar Saha | December 23, 2011 at 7:36 pm

Shidonni.Com (Draw and design)

Age: 5 to 12 Shidonni.Com is certainly innovative beginning for children; it initiates and enhances kids creativity and computer skills in a friendly environment. It takes kids in their imaginary world and gives them readymade elements and virtual blank boards to draw and save their invented things that could be an animal, landscape, or anything weird; and share it with others friends. Shidonni.Com, in return, encourages and rewards them by adding some special effects, design effects and background music to their drawing to make them magically alive and creative. It creates a virtual world where kids intellectual growth doubles. PBSKids.Org/(Devise games)

Ages 8 to 13 PBS has created a new horizon by embracing new technology and methods to enhance kids creativity. Here kids have a variety of things to do- they can design and build their individual games and even challenge their friends. PBS KIDS Lab is a hub of numerous resources for parents as well as teachers. It even helps to build critical math skills and develop interactive math content. They design games by age group and skills allowing kids to search for the games that suit their expertise and interest. PBS has designed over 40 crossplatform games for age group of 2-8 to build their analytical skills. PBS also gives lessons on how interactive games assist kids in learning new things fast. MakeBeliefsComix.Com (Craft cartoons)

All ages MakeBeliefsComix.Com is a free tool for students to explore and express their creativity through writing and make distinct comic strips. They can pick up animals as well as human characters from the provided list and fill them up with different moods, thought and let them talk and write a story about it. It also provides study

materials for teachers to help kids improve their language, reading as well as writing skills. Parents can also join their kids and assist them to make original stories, print or email them to their friends and family. Scratch.Mit.Edu(Program a video)

Ages 8 and up Scratch is a website that gives children a programming environment so that they could produce their own interactive stories, games, animations, music, and art, and share their creations on the web. At initial stage, children might feel taking assistance of elders but on progress they learn to face challenges on their own and start exploring their talents to overcome them. Animation, in Scratch, consists of sprites and you have to pick them up and keep in the script area. Here you can play with sprites made by you using the drawing tool or built-in sprites and even you can change their looks as well as costumes. Scratch employs the programming statements such as if/then-clauses, repeat/until constructs, loops and many more. PBSKids.Org/arthur/games/crankitup (Make music)

All ages On PBS Kids platform, kids enjoy music from their favorite characters that they watch them on TV shows such as Clifford the Big Red Dog, Teletubbies, Reading Rainbow, and Sesame Street. They can sing with them and play with them online. PBS is widely famous among kids and provides them with a variety of activities to help them learn, explore and grow. They have already achieved 4.5 stars for promoting fun, education and commercial-free activities. CyberTeens.Com (Cyberteens)

CyberTeens is an online community for teenagers with the features of chatting with friends, playing myriad of games, painting, creating Flash and Shockwave, writing poetry, reading fiction as well as non-fictions, composing music, watching celebrity interviews, movie and reading product reviews, and many more. Concisely, Kids and Teens get exposure here to see and explore the world. CreativeKidsAtHome.Com (Creative Kids at Home)

CreativeKidsAtHome.Com is completely dedicated to kids targeting the age group of 4 to 12. It encourages childrens creativity and assists them in crafting different gifts and completing Science projects with their parents assistance. MakingFriends.Com (Preschool Paper Crafts)

MakingFriends.Com provides kids with over a dozen printable sheets so that they cut them out, color them with crayons, and glued to make things like crown, a semi-3 dimensional Easter basket, paper doll chain

cutout, place mats, and other ornamental and creative creations. It helps them explore themselves and their skills; and helps them learn the color recognition and combinations, eye and hand coordination, planning the entire process and more. Through the process, kids learn to accomplish the mission on time. picsource: oilcorner.deviantart.com FamilyFun.Go.Com ( FamilyFun)

Disney FamilyFun is a great resource of everything from perfect planning of parties, occasions, volunteering family travels, decorating kids rooms, and Recipes of different yummy delicious foods & Other Ideas for Kids as well as Parents for family fun. It offers real innovative ideas to children under 12. As of 2010, it has total 5.5 million trusted audiences worldwide. Funbrain.com

Funbrain, founded in 1997, was created for preschool kids. It gives them access of more than 100 interactive games that teach them tricks of solving complicated math problems andy help them develop skills to face the real life situations and solve them head on. Here, they can also read various comics as well as popular books that include Amelia Writes Again, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Brewster Rocket. Here, teachers, librarians, and parents land up to learn new and interactive things. Funbrain is dedicated to offering a secured gaming environment that fills the gap of learning and entertainment. It provides a safe experience of learning to the children. Read more: http://www.successstories.co.in/top-10-creative-websites-for-kids/#ixzz2aR7sxfWg

52 Character Building Thoughts for Children

By Leah Davies, M.Ed.
The following quotes may be used in a variety of ways by both teachers and counselors. One idea is for a thought to be posted, read, and discussed at the beginning of each week. It could then be read daily with the students. At the end of the week ask them what they learned or how the thought applied to their lives or activities during the week. Have the children give written or oral examples, or have them draw a picture to illustrate their ideas. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. How I look is not as important as how I act. I treat others the way I want them to treat me. I am a good sport; I follow the rules, take turns and play fair. It is okay to laugh at funny things, but not to laugh at others. I do not gossip; if I cannot say anything helpful, I do not say anything at all. When I am sad, I help myself feel better by thinking of things that are good in my life.

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In order to have friends, I must act in a kind way. I believe that I am someone who can do important things. What I say and how I say it tells others the kind of person I am.

10. I appreciate my family, my teachers, and my school. 11. I treat everyone with respect. 12. When I listen, I show others that I care about them. 13. I am being a good citizen when I volunteer to help others. 14. I think for myself and make smart choices that are good for me. 15. Each day offers a new start to do my best. 16. I try to understand what my friends are feeling. 17. Everyone makes mistakes, so instead of getting angry with myself, I try to do better. 18. I do not give up; I keep trying until I can do my work. 19. Sharing with others makes me feel good and makes them feel good too. 20. I work out my problems without hurting myself or others. 21. I am being polite when I wait for my turn and say please and thank you. 22. When I smile at people, they usually smile back. 23. I encourage my friends to do their best. 24. My values guide me to do what is right. 25. I am honest; I do not cheat or steal. 26. When I am angry, I use self-control and do not hurt others. 27. I am being creative when I dance, draw, paint or write a poem or story. 28. I say, "No!" to things that could hurt my body like tobacco and alcohol. 29. When I do what I say I will do, I am being responsible. 30. I am grateful for what I have, so I share with others. 31. I try to learn something new each day. 32. When things do not go my way, I stop and think of what I can do to make them better. 33. I do not make fun of other children because I don't know what their life is like. 34. I feel successful when I do my best. 35. Everyone has good and bad feelings. 36. I take care of myself by eating healthy food, exercising and getting enough rest. 37. I am being punctual when I am on time and do not keep people waiting. 38. When I cooperate with others, I get more done.

39. I follow the rules and try to make my school a better place. 40. I like to get to know children who are different from me. 41. Since I tell the truth, my friends trust me. 42. I look for what is good in others and I say what I like about them. 43. I buy only what I need and I save my money. 44. When I use my time wisely, there is usually enough time to do what I want to do. 45. I think before I act; how I act affects how others treat me. 46. Using manners helps me keep my friends. 47. I have courage to stand up for children who are teased. 48. Before I do something, I ask myself, "Is it safe?" 49. I am me -- I do not try to be like someone else. 50. I care about living things on earth so I recycle and do not litter. 51. When I write down what I think and feel, I learn about myself. 52. I plan ahead and think about what I want to do when I grow up.