The idea of conscience is resurging nowadays because there has been a rapid increase in problems with impulse control, like addictions. When parents promote a healthy conscience, they are making their children less vulnerable to these types of problems. Dr. Scoresby presents several methods that help parents nurture their child’s inner voice so children recognize it, consult it, and use it to avoid harming themselves or others.

Being able to depend on someone who is reliable is the precursor for learning to be dependable. A boy can depend on a mentor for love, support, example, guidance, and correction. He can also learn to be dependable when asked to carry out a course of action which results from an assignment or request of another. Dr. Scoresby explains the process of teaching dependability so mentors can promote this positive virtue.

Helping or influencing a boy depends on the creation of an emotional tie between the boy and those who guide him. It is created when the mentor communicates a desire to understand the boy in a unique way. This may include understanding his social and psychological stage or his type of intelligence. Using these tools will help motivate the boy to participate in this important emotional tie.

When we learn about applying moral concepts and principles, it becomes clear that family relationships are an excellent environment in which to teach about and apply them. This is how and why strong families are the foundation of a society. Dr. Scoresby explains how you can organize your family to ensure that the lessons your children learn within the family are displayed by them outside the family. This can really strengthen your parenting.

Moral behavior can be applied easier if we understand some things about the origin of how and why moral principles and concepts evolve. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby discusses God, science, and society and shows how these origins lead to three different types of morality, which is where we usually get our ideas. You can see where the ideas came from and hear examples of how to apply them.

We are learning more about morality, ethics, and character, but the real question is whether we want to use and apply what we know. In this episode, Dr. Scoresby defines morality, ethics, and character and describes how applying the significant ideas found in each of these three knowledge domains can improve our lives as individuals and enhance our friendships, marriages, and family relationships.

Dr. Scoresby identifies four environments where violence tends to take place as a beginning step in developing an effective method of altering it. Knowing and changing what happens in these situations will be an essential part of any strategy we design to stop it. We must stop it where it is planted and where it grows.

Grappling with the urgent need to stop the violence around us requires that we understand more about the elements of violence and how they lead us to strategies for preventing it. Dr. Scoresby talks about common ingredients in all acts of violence: 1) intention, 2) an active perpetrator, 3) a victim or victims, 4) the context or situation in which it occurs, and 5) a culture that tolerates violence instead of cultivating nonviolence. Included are several examples for parents and children.

Dr. Scoresby talks about some of the most common obstacles to happiness and what can be done to remove or overcome them. Since most obstacles to happiness lie within us, in order to address and solve them, we need to look closely at ourselves and learn how to organize ourselves to overcome them.