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Stories from history and the Bible, and a few made-up ones, each built around one virtue. Print-and-go lessons that take one evening at the kitchen table, free, and free to share.
Featured free lesson · A Christmas lesson
On the night Jesus was born, an angel brought the news to shepherds out in a field. They ran to find him. Then they told everyone.
This lesson stays with the plain account in Luke 2: a trip to Bethlehem, no room at the inn, a baby laid in a manger, and shepherds who heard the news that night, ran to see it, and went back praising God. The virtue is gratitude, the kind that speaks up. Scripture is quoted from The Living Bible.
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The whole world walled off an island of the sick and looked away. One young priest sailed toward it, and would not leave. Kindness. 6 pages, ~15 minutes.
Two good men saw the wounded stranger and crossed to the other side. The one who stopped was the last man anyone expected. Kindness. 6 pages, ~15 minutes.
The seat Theo waited three weeks for is finally open. And so is the one nobody ever chooses, across from the boy who eats alone. Two seats, one tray, and what kindness really costs. Kindness. 6 pages, ~15 minutes.
Practice week, three weeks of honesty stories become seven days of your child’s own: one honest line, decided in advance, held for a week. Honesty. 6 pages, ~15–20 minutes.
She had been given names by other people her whole life. And when at last she could choose her own, she chose Truth. The true story of Sojourner Truth. Honesty, Real People. 6 pages, ~15 minutes.
In the old markets, a cheat and an honest merchant looked exactly the same, until you watched the scale. The just weight, thousands of years old. Honesty. 5 pages, ~15 minutes.
The cashier counts the change wrong, in Nora’s favor, just enough for the paints she’d wanted all year. And nobody saw. Honesty. 6 pages, ~15–20 minutes.
Practice week, the month’s stories become seven days of your child’s own trail: one line, decided in advance, held for a week. Conviction. 6 pages, ~15–20 minutes.
Desmond Doss refused to carry a rifle, then carried some seventy-five wounded men off a cliff at Okinawa. Conviction. 6 pages, ~15–20 minutes.
A boy at a king’s table, and a tray he’d decided about long before it arrived. Conviction. 5 pages, ~15 minutes.
A story about the race nobody sees, and the runner everybody trusts. Conviction. 6 pages, ~15 minutes.
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