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WHAT’S going on with our
kids?

Incidents such as the high-schoo!
shootings in Littleton, Colorado,
and Taber, Alberta, are causing more
and more concern — and an intense
search for answers.

To help find those answers,
> Vision TV is presenting a 13-part

series called Virtues: A Family
Affair.
The show runs weekly on Vision
TV, Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. from
. Jan. 6-March 30 2000 — and pro-
vides: a variety of simple, practical
ways, for parents to tap into such
innate virtues as, kindness, respect
and creativity to bring out the best in
their children and in themselves:
Author and __ psychotherapist
Linda Kavelin Popov, her husband,
pediatric psychologist Dan Popor,
‘and her brother, Disney producer
John Kavelin, realized many parents
. felt. the need to teach their children

increasing number of people who

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PARENTING

this gap and support parents in their
efforts’ to provide a moral compass

The result was the best-selling
book, The Family Virtues Guide, on

Ks at virtues and values

real parents and their kids — from
tots to teenagers and a broad range
of faiths, cultural and family back-
grounds —- in actual workshops,
putting the virtues into action.

The series features situations in
which the virtues have helped, as well
as interviews with community leaders
and educators from Washington to
the Yukon who have successfully
used the virtues project on a larger
scale.

Written, produced and directed
by Hilary Jones- Farrow, the series is
divided | into the following episodes:

® Jan. 6: idealism;
@ Jan. 13: kindness;
& Jan. 20: joyfulness;
Jan. 27: justice;
Feb. 3: reverence;
Feb. 10: truthfulness;
Fe . 17: confidence;
. 24: forgiveness;
farch 2: tolerance;
arch 9: peacefulness;
arch 16: respect;

values and virtues, but didn’t know have opted out of organized religion,
arch 23: courage;

where to start.

tradidonally a teacher of these basics.

and teach life’s most important which the television series was based.

This is particularly rue for

the They decided to find a way to fill

“. WEDNESDAYS
. Drop-in Storytime Fun: For

3. “B-year-olds. Wednesdays, at

10:30 a.m. and 1:29 p.m. and
“ Fridays, at 10:30 a.m., West
Van Memorial Library. Info:
925-7408.

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Wednesday and Fader ae ib at 10

a.m. or 11 a.m. No storytime
Dec. 27-Jan. 2. Info: 980-
4424.

Junior Stamp = Club:
Wednesday, Jin. 12, 3:30
p-m., at the Morth Van City
Library. Pre-register: 980-

4424.

THURSDAYS
Babytime: | For 6-24 months

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lessons to their children.

accompanied by a parent or

caregiver at the West Van
Memorial Library. Stories,
songs, and finger plays.
Thursdays, at 10:30 a.m.
Register in person or by call-
ing 995- 7408.

Kindergarten. Storytime:

For 4-6-year-olds at the.

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Virtues: A- Family Affair shows

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North Van City Library. Jan..

13, 20 and 27 at 9:30 a.m. or
1:30 p.m. Pre-register for next
month: 980-4424.

Drop-in Babes Storytime:

For 0-24 months at the North.

Van City Library.:- Tuesday and
Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Info:
980-4424.

‘and proof of residence ao

atch 30: unity.

International Fairytales and
Craft: For 6-9-year-olds.
Thursday, Tan. 27. at 3:30
p.m., North Van City Library.
Pre-register: 980-4424.