Value-of-life

Dr. Dobson does it once again...I'm always astounded by his ability to say exactly what needs to be said, the way it needs to be addressed. 38 Values to Live By appears at first to be a typical coffee-table "saying-of-the-day" book, but once opened and read it becomes so much more. Avoiding the anecdotal short phrases of knowledge that leave the reader open to any interpretation or distortion, Dobson draws from the main areas of everyone's life--whether you be a parent or student--and gives deep and insightful wisdom that has true spiritual substance to it. The values are usually at most a paragraph in length, but one must give credit to the way the words are arranged about pages filled with beautiful and therapeutic pictures of people and breath-taking scenery. As a person, it will give you practical guidance with the capability of changing your life-view, and as a coffee-table book it will probably leave some unsuspecting guest speechless. I highly recommend it.

This is a great gide for anyone who has kids or wants to have kids.It gives practical atvice on Silvana Clark's wonderful theary of how to make your kids grow up confident.Her doughter is a tribute to that.Sondra Clark has publshed 3 books of her own! what a family!!

I purchased this book after reading the glowing reviews from other parents. The concepts are great, the games and activities - truly ten minutes or less - are creative and effectively teach the lessons they set out to teach. However, I disagreed with previous reviewers who found this book helpful for opening up lines of communication with their pre-teen and teenage children. These are sound lessons, but I don't see how any parent could get their older children to participate without a lot of eye-rolling and protests of "I am SO too old for this." More interesting for older kids are "201 Questions to Ask Your Parents" by Pepper Schwartz or "201 Great Questions for Kids and Parents" by Jerry Jones. Both books allow older kids to ask parents about their feelings and life experiences in a way that makes them recognize parents as regular people, just like them, who grew up just like they did, learning and making mistakes along the way - not infallible, inaccessible, or larger-than-life as we sometimes seem.

We use the games in this book as the basis for discussions about character at the supper table with our 11 and 15 year olds. Jamie C. Miller had a great idea with this book. I think our kids will take away valuable lessons on values for their whole lives, and maybe do the same for their own kids someday.
Also recommended: Norman Thomas Remick's book of character called "West Point: Character Leadership Education..", which is an education in and of itself, and which my husband and I constantly refer to.

I start our weekly family meetings with a lesson from this book. All three of my boys (ages 8, 13, & 17), have gotten lots of fun and value from the books lessons. Mom & Dad Too!