The Virtue Heroes Tool for Parents & Educators:
The simplest, and most effective character building tool: Virtue Heroes Power Bingo
Guide the children you love into a lifestyle of virtue through a simple game of bingo that can be played again and again. Strengthening virtue in children is a process of: 1) Helping them learn to name and understand how they can choose to be “good” (virtuous), and then 2) Helping them to stay excited in their efforts to use the power of virtue in living everyday life. You CAN build habits of virtue in children through this simple incentive and affirmation process.
Here are the five ways children can earn Virtue Heroes Power Bingo Points:
THINK: Affirm kids for cultivating virtuous thinking through what they read, watch and listen to. Guide them to choose the content that makes them virtue-strong.
PRAY: Affirm kids for asking God for grace to strengthen them - and others - with the power of virtue. (Prayer is a key component in powering up virtue.)
DO: Affirm kids for virtuous actions.
SAY: Affirm kids for speaking with virtue.
HURRAY! : Affirm kids for looking for, and “tattling” about the good in others.
Simple Concept. Powerful Results.
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Play Virtue Heroes Bingo!
Virtue Heroes Power Bingo page includes 25 squares that can be filled in at home or in a classroom. You can have several children, or a class, work together to fill in the page, or kids can work individually. The five categories give this exercise deep value. They integrate the internal influences and external actions that create virtuous living. Children are empowered as they become aware of how virtue comes alive in what they think and pray, do and say. Applying that lens to appreciate and encourage virtue in others - with their “Hurray!” - takes it beyond themselves, and makes it a powerful team effort!
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The Tiny Virtue Heroes Will Help You!
As you begin to use the Virtue Heroes Power Bingo, the children often need help to know what the virtues are. The Tiny Virtue Heroes each represent a specific virtue. They can help kids learn and recall the terminology - and what the words mean - in a fun and imaginative way.
You can start using the Virtue Heroes Power Bingo simply, children can pick 2 or 3 familiar virtues to focus on. Then gradually over time, visit VirtueHeroes.com often to discover new tiny virtue hero friends, and new virtues! As the child’s recognition and recall builds, they will try to use more different virtues in earning points as they play again.
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Let Us Know How You are Doing!
Often a young child will think, pray, do, or say something they believe is “good” but they don’t know how to name it. That is the teachable moment, when you discover together how exactly they exercised a virtue, and celebrate that discovery with them.
The Virtue Heroes Power Bingo helps you expand the child’s virtue vocabulary, and help them name and claim the power of virtue as their own. Let us know if you have questions or have a testimony how this tool works well for you!
