WHO: Parents
WHAT: Parents, if results from a recent study are enough to go on, are not taking enough time to teach their children morals.
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WHY IT’S A BAD IDEA: According to a recent Josephson Institute study, which surveyed almost 30,000 students, 30 percent of U.S. high school students stole from a store in the past year and 64 percent cheated on a test. Yikes. Not to lie, cheat, or steal are basics that should be learned by kindergarten. Ignoring teaching values means we create a society filled with people who, like the nation’s groveling top bank executives, choose greed over hard work and delayed gratification.
WHERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MORAL EDUCATION: tigger.uic.edu/~lnucci/MoralEd/overview.html
DIM BULB: Moving madness
A family packs a moving van with all of their belongings, only to receive less than half of it in their new house because the moving company stole it. This is a recurring theme with Green Movers of Glen Burnie, according to customers. Fourteen complaints were filed at the Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland against Green Movers. To prevent this nightmare from happening to you, get recommendations from friends, check comments online before hiring a moving company — and don’t let movers near valuables.
Today’s quote
“You would think there would be some type of standard for regulating what is in [sunscreens] or how they market those products. … We want people to be educated consumers, and we want people to pick up a bottle of sunscreen and know what they are buying.” — Brittany Lietz, Miss Maryland 2006 and a melanoma survivor
