the character library

Curated Perspectives on Character

Recommended Reading

• PERSPECTIVES ON EXCELLENCE

  • New Coaches – What Do They Really Need?, By John Leonard, Executive Director of The American Swimming Coaches Association

• Societal Issues:

  • Competency, not self-esteem, should be the goal of education.

  • Under the Influence: How the Group Changes What We Think

  • How America Can Help Its Kids

  • A Nation of Wimps

  • Oh Snooki, you’re sooooo lame

• Pressures on Youth:

  • The Pressure to Cheat

  • Compilation of Notes re: High School Drinking

  • Our Position on Unhealthy Social Choices

  • To Drink or Not to Drink on Recruiting Trips

• Parenting:

  • I Try to Be a Good Father

  • Grown-Up Problems Start at Bedtime

  • The Praise Craze

  • WSJ: Myth of the Over scheduled Child

  • World Class Parents

  • The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting

  • Not Stealing Your Child's Childhood

  • How America Can Help It's Kids

  • The Anxious Child (from The Atlantic - June 2020)

• Inspirational:

  • The Butterfly Effect

  • The Builder

  • Being Olympian

  • More Than I Bargained For

  • Thank you. No, thank you. Why Grateful People are Happier

  • Love the Process by Yael Averbuch