February 27, 2004
The Importance of Words
• Are there words missing from your child’s spelling test?
• Is your child’s vocabulary absent of words that create ethics?
Perhaps your child is a victim of neutral politics and non-denominational absent morality.
Hear this! If we do not educate our child with basic vocabulary, with the values we put on these qualities they will never have a chance to live up to anything. Everyone will suffer because they will also lack connection with community sustaining principles.
I think it is our responsibility to give our children the ability to have ethical dilemmas by giving them words with values connected to them so they can struggle with their own personal ethics and fit them into our society...or not.
Here’s the list I recommend we begin to use with each other first so our children can see this work in action:
Honesty - The state of being honest, refraining from lying 2) showing fairness, STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS, sincerity.
Integrity - the quality of being complete, sound, unbroken. the quality of being of sound moral character.
Dignity - the quality of being worthy of merit, the quality of being worthy of esteem or honor.
Courage - the quality of facing anything that is recognized to be dangerous, difficult or painful, instead of withdrawing. the quality of being fearless or brave, valor. ( mind; purpose; spirit; The courage of ones convictions )
