Charity Edergton

Charity is a passionate mother of two amazing young boys and had been blessed with the opportunity to be the stay at home mom. This experience has really changed my life, and inspired me to be a blog author.

My kids keep a gratitude journal, do goal setting, and recognition exercises and creative visualization among several others.

My belief is that our children are our most important asset and their emotional well-being is of serious concern. I'm committed to helping parents, teachers and anyone that plays a significant role in child's life by providing an opportunity to get more involved in their child's happiness.

Character Happiness Makes a Better Life

Home and Family: Parenting • Published: May 25, 2010

Are you happy with the way you treat people? Are you happy with the way people treat you? If you're not, you can change things by changing your character.

Character Education is Everywhere

Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 12, 2010

Character education isn't anything new. It's recently received a formal label. However, adults have been teaching character for years. Maybe it wasn't in a formal class setting, but that doesn't matter. Parents and grandparents, teachers, coaches and anyone who interacts with kids is a teacher of character.

Character - Happiness Questions and Answers

Home and Family: Parenting • Published: April 1, 2010

Is it possible to teach children happiness? Some teachers and parents believe it is possible. Supporters of this idea think that if you're building character, happiness belongs too.

Character Counts For Highly Effective People

Self Improvement: Success • Published: March 19, 2010

Do you understand the importance of character? Good character counts because: (1) it helps you become a better person, (2) it increases your chances of creating a good life, and (3) you'll feel better about yourself in general. Here are some character building tips.

The Character Development Quiz

Home and Family: Parenting • Published: February 5, 2010

Why is character development important? It's important because it has a profound effect on your life. You spend your entire life being judged based on your actions. Because of this, working to become the best person you can be is an admirable goal. Do you know what it means to display good character? Take this quiz to find out how much you know about developing good personality traits.

Why Do Children Need Positive Role Models?

Home and Family: Parenting • Published: January 22, 2010

Children need positive role models. Unfortunately, many of them look to entertainers to fill that role. How many times have you heard an entertainer say they don't want to be a positive influence? They might not want the job, but they have it anyway.

The Importance of Being a Positive Role Model For Your Child

Home and Family: Parenting • Published: January 21, 2010

You are a role model to your child. Your child looks to you for ideas about what is acceptable behaviour. Children that don't have positive role models: (1) are easily influenced by the mass media, (2) are more likely to obsess over their appearance, and (3) learn many of their behaviour skills from music, television, and movies. Keep reading to find out why you should be a positive role model for your child.

What is Character Education?

Home and Family: Parenting • Published: January 21, 2010

Have you ever asked the question "what is character education" and wondered whether it is something that is important, or relevant to you? It can be described this way: "a deliberate and conscious effort to learn and develop virtues, and values, that are good for you and good for society." So yes, it is important.

Can Children Learn Character on Purpose?

Home and Family: Parenting • Published: January 18, 2010

Children learn character traits either directly or indirectly. It's best for them to learn directly because: (1) it reduces the influence of negative outside sources, (2) they can learn to replace negative beliefs with positive ones, and (3) it doesn't leave their character development to chance. If you think character can't be taught, this article just might change your mind.

Teaching Character

Kids and Teens • Published: January 4, 2010

In general character is taught, not embedded within us. Yes, one might be naturally compassionate, but true character is taught. Teaching character is done successfully when taught by the most influential people in a child's life.

How Can Character Education Help Kids Learn?

Reference and Education • Published: January 4, 2010

For years, the common belief was that success stems from academic achievement and rote memorization. Kids were put through rigorous programs of memorization and fact-specific testing, all the while ignoring one of the most important parts of development and emotional intelligence. Character education, one of the most important parts of development, has been left out of many kids' lives, and using some simple tools, you can add it to your child's learning curriculum and create self confidence, drive and ambition, and accelerated emotional intelligence in your child.