Growing Years Christian School and Child Care Center is a privately owned school which was built specifically with children in mind. Every aspect of the facility and program has been planned to make the most out of the time we have with your child.

Creating Character in the Growing Years Featuring the Peddlesfoot Family

Children killing children and environments where harassment, lying, cheating, and bullying are the norm should not be tolerated but need to be eliminated from our society. Teaching moral reasoning, emotional control, prosocial behaviors, and positive personal and civic values otherwise known as “good character” to young children cannot be taken for granted. It is our utmost responsibility to tackle this monumental task immediately.

Creating Character in the Growing Years Featuring the Peddlesfoots Family is an excellent curriculum that teaches these essential character traits in a planned, systematic manner that can be used in the home, school, and/ or community. This exciting series revolves around five lively rabbits who encounter many opportunities to make choices. Their choices involve a conscientious effort to develop good moral character that leads to lifelong moral decision making and positive conduct. Each episode with the Peddlesfoots Family builds upon previous skills necessary to help young children understand how “good character” develops. The curriculum provides repetition, music, and multiple approaches to learning which fits perfectly with the current literature supporting brain based learning.

Martin Luther King’s eloquent statement: “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of the skin, but by the content of their character,” identifies the importance that character plays in creating a caring and respectful society. Integrating this curriculum in your everyday life will provide you with effective guiding principles, strategies, and techniques that will lead to a positive caring citizenry with good moral character. Children are only twenty-five percent (25%) of our population but one hundred percent (100%) of our future. How they treat us and each other is of critical importance. Thus, enhancing their character early on will make that crucial difference in everyone’s well being.

Please join me in getting to know the Peddlesfoots Family and building quality CHARACTER!

Debra Lively, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Teacher Education:
Early Childhood Education, Special Education, and Elementary Education
Saginaw Valley State University
University Center, Michigan

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