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Living Values Activities Books 
This series offers a variety of experiential activities for teachers and parents

LVE is a comprehensive values education programme. This innovative and global programme offers teachers and facilitators a variety of experiential values activities and practical methodologies to enable children and young adults to explore and develop 12 key values: Cooperation, Freedom, Happiness, Honesty, Humility, Love, Peace, Respect, Responsibility, Simplicity, Tolerance and Unity. LVE also has special materials for use with parents and caregivers, children affected by war and children affected by earthquakes.

LVE's series of Living Values Activities books is published by Health Communications, Inc. In each newsletter we bring into focus one of the values explored by LVE, excerpting from this award winning series selected ideas and activities on each value. In the last edition the focus was on tolerance; this edition focuses on honesty.

Reflection Points from Living Values Activities for Young Adults, Honesty Unit.

• Honesty is telling the truth.

• When I am honest, I feel clear inside.

• A person worthy of confidence is honest and true.

• Honesty means there are no contradictions or discrepancies in thoughts, words, or actions.

• Honest thoughts, words, and actions create harmony.

• Honesty is the awareness of what is right and appropriate in one?s role, one?s behaviour and one?s relationships.

• With honesty, there is no hypocrisy or artificiality which create confusion and mistrust in the minds and lives of others.

• Honesty makes for a life of integrity because the inner and outer selves are a mirror image.

• Honesty is to use well what has been entrusted to you.

• There is a deep relationship between honesty and friendship.

• Greed is sometimes at the root of dishonesty.

• There is enough for man?s need, but not enough for man?s greed.

• An honest person knows that we are all interconnected.

• To be honest to one?s real self and to the purpose of a task earns trust and inspires faith in others.

Imagine a world in which every person is honest. What would the world be like if every person realized we are interconnected? In the next few days experiment with staying full of love and clarity with yourself, and practising the balance of honesty and love. What helps you stay in that state? Is there a difference in your relationships?

You can read an excerpt on honesty from Living Values: A Guidebook to stimulate thought; please click as indicated below for activities on Honesty for Parents, Children and Young Adults. Young adults may wish to explore a few of the ideas with family or friends while parents may wish to take up some of the activities with their children. And do let us know how you get on or if you've got other experiences or activities you'd like to share!

"Our discussions must be full, they must be thorough, and they must be courteous. The votes which we take must be free. It is essential, above all, that decisions, once taken, should be accepted loyally, and we must all of us do our best to implement them to the full."

Mr. P. H. Spaak, President of the First Session of the UN General Assembly,
January, 1946