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As parents… we all need help!

As parents, we sometimes feel a bit frustrated in our efforts to teach our sons and daughters the values and behavior we know are best for them. We can feel we have lost control… and all of this has its reasons and also its remedy. This is the mission of Alive to the World.

Our globalized world has seen a great crisis in family, as well as huge technological changes and a tempo of life which obliges most women to work out of the home. Add to this a pervasive and constant stream of propaganda encouraging promiscuity and individualism. How can we, as parents, help our children to avoid falling into the mistakes of all kinds which are now so common?

Alive to the World is a curriculum designed for the classroom, from Kindergarten to 12th grade, to teach values and virtues. The 13 text books contain an on-going story of Charles and his cousin Alice and their group of friends who come across all the situations and questions that all our young people experience.

Alive to the World attracts and involves the young readers, who identify with the characters and learn through them the practical workings of justice, solidarity, teamwork, etc., and how learning the steps towards integrity provides increasing self-respect and self-confidence, leading to success in the different facets of their lives.

The pedagogy behind this program, the Pedagogy of the Integration of the Person, has been demonstrated by experiences in the most varied socio-economic surroundings that AtW helps students to bring out the positive in themselves and helps them to get over the negative as they learn to have “grit, gratitude and generosity”. It brings the students to understand themselves, each other and their goals in life.

Students love these books because they address all the questions that arise at each age, without judging but with much information and a healthy openness.

A Guide for Parents

Many parents find it awkward to discuss sex with their children. This is a normal reaction to something so private, and the reason this Guide has been written: to give parents all the information they need and to show how it can be imparted. The Guide teaches by example, using stories to demonstrate how conversations between parents and their children can develop. These are based on a wide body of recent scientific knowledge and are designed to fill children with wonder and convince them that their persons are worthy of the greatest respect.
The Guide is divided into ten chapters that build on each other. They target children from pre-puberty (about 9) through to adolescence (about 16). Each chapter is accompanied by clear hand-drawn biological diagrams and includes:
  • a list of points to remember
  • a glossary of biological terms.
It is recommended that parents read the whole Guide through, to equip themselves to answer their children’s questions and to decide when their children are ready for more detailed lessons. These can take the form of reading a chapter as it stands, with the parents stopping to ask or answer questions. Other parents prefer to teach in their own words: the diagrams are given without comment at the back to help with this. Sometimes children prefer to read the book for themselves, especially when they are older.
The Guide was written to complement the Alive to the World series of values education books for schools. These leave to parents the important role of explaining the intimacy of sex to their own children. It is hoped that, where possible, schools will encourage parents to take up this role, recommending Sexuality Explained as a resource to help them.