Apparently when you give praise to your kids, it’s good to tell them exactly what character trait you are praising them for. This will help them identify good character traits and practice them. My aunt told me this and gave me a card from charactercity.hk listing all these traits.

I think it’s a brilliant idea.

The traits are:

• Alertness
• Attentiveness
• Availability
• Boldness
• Cautiousness
• Compassion
• Contentment
• Decisiveness
• Dependability
• Determination
• Diligence
• Discernment
• Discretion
• Endurance
• Enthusiasm
• Faith
• Filial Piety
• Firmness
• Flexibility
• Forgiving
• Fulfil Responsility
• Generosity
• Gentleness
• Gratefulness
• Harmony
• Honesty
• Hospitality
• Humbleness
• Ingenuity
• Initiative
• Integrity
• Joyfulness
• Kindness
• Leniency
• Loyalty
• Obedience
• Orderliness
• Patience
• Persuasiveness
• Politeness
• Punctuality
• Resourcefulness
• Respect
• Security
• Sensitivity
• Sincerity
• Temperance
• Thoroughness
• Thriftiness
• Uprightness
• Virtue
• Wisdom

Quite a list …