Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter

by Hal Urban

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With more than a quarter million copies sold, award-winning teacher Hal Urban outlines twenty lessons that answer timeless questions about how to make the most of your life. Life's Greatest Lessons is a wise, wonderful book. In it, Hal Urban, a parent and an award-winning teacher, presents twenty principles that are as deeply rooted in common sense as they are in compassion. The topics, gathered from a lifetime of teaching both children and adults, span a wide range of readily understood show more concepts, including attitudes about money, understanding the real meaning of success, and the importance of having fun. The book will help you find the best in the world, in others, and in yourself. Classic in its simplicity and enduring in its appeal, Lifes Greatest Lessons helps us all rediscover that the desire to live a good life is timeless. show less

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This book is a rich and flowing river of timeless wisdom and commonsense truth for living life to fullest. He writes, the lessons he has chosen to write about are essential ones, lessons that he wish he had known when he was younger. I want our kids to do more than simply these lessons bu to apply them. Ancient Chinese proverb tells us; I hear...and I forget, I see... and I remember. I do ...and I understand
I picked up the original 20 Things I Want My Kids to Know in 1992 as my wife and I were starting to plan for children. We found the book encouraging and got us thinking about what life lessons we wanted to model and pass on to our kids. We found a significant overlap between the 20 lessons in this book to the lessons we thought where important. I had thought this book was out of print so I have been recommending the book Never Mind the Joneses which touches on many on the same themes though is more explicitly Christian in it morality. I discovered that Life's Greatest Lessons was essentially the same content, just with a new title and publisher. I likely this book enough to repurchase it in e-book form.
This is a book that I will read with my daughters. Terrific insight into what it really means to be human. Puts life priorities back into the right order.
knygoje rašytojas primena, jog gyvenimas yra žmogaus pasirinkimų rezultats ir kad patys svarbiausi pasirinkimai tampa mūsų charakterio savybėmis.Nėkada nevėlu keistis
Mar 5, 2010Lithuanian

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Hal Urban was a high school teacher for many years and also taught at the University of San Francisco. He is a well-known leader in the Character Education movement and is in constant demand as a speaker at national conferences and school and community events. He raised three sons as a single father, and now lives in Redwood City, California, with show more his wife, Cathy show less

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158.1Philosophy and PsychologyPsychologyApplied psychologyPersonal improvement and analysis
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BJ1581.2 .U73Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionEthicsEthicsIndividual ethics. Character. Virtue
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