Welcome to Kids and Values!

Having your kids grow up with good strong values seems to be the desire of most parents that I have met. It certainly was the desire of my wife and myself. This is how my adventure with teaching values began. When my son was 3 years-old, I jumped on him for telling a lie. My wife asked me if he really knew what he had done. I did some research and found that telling the truth was a value that is often not understood by children until around age 6. I had never had a course in teaching values, but I had a good education and had been brought up in a great home. I didn’t know, however, that some values were not understood by a child until they reached a certain age or maturity. I felt that others probably had similar gaps in their understanding of how to teach good values to their kids.

From this initial experience grew a team of moms and dads, child psychologists, early childhood educators, and more. We researched how children learn values and the ages at which they learn them. We also developed a series of tools for teaching values to kids: parent guides, videos, DVDs, music, CDs, puppets, curriculum, and more. Any material involved with values needs a basis and we have chosen the Bible as the basis.

This web site will be our opportunity to share with other parents what we have learned. We will discuss the characteristics of children at different ages and how a child learns the values. With each value will be some specific activities that you can do with your child. Sometimes the suggestions will refer to a video, but most of the suggestions can be implemented whether you have the DVD or don’t have the DVD. We have also included activity sheets you can do with your child and songs that you can sing with them that are built around values. At times you will see some references to Quigley’s Village, which is a series of fun and entertaining videos (now on DVD) that kids like to watch and which teaches values. We produced these videos/dvds to help parents teach values to their pre-school kids.

We want this site to be helpful to you as a parent in teaching values to your kids.