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Thompson, Sherwood – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2011
Discouraged youth need caring adults who employ both traditional and creative strategies to help them develop character and positive life goals. Caring adults can help youth realize that they are worthy of love and possess great potential. There is great promise and hope for troubled youth if they connect with adults who are convinced that every…
Descriptors: Caring, Personality Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Child Rearing
Kuttner, Joanne Fitzmaurice – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
There is a wise proverb that insists it takes a whole village to raise a child to adulthood. In light of the expanding convolution of contemporary values, it is especially important to attentively nurture the inherent desire in each developing human person to seek good and avoid evil, especially during the critical years of adolescent formation.…
Descriptors: Social Action, Holistic Approach, Integrity, Moral Values