Samurai Principles & Practices: That will Help Preteens & Teens in School, Sports, Social Activities & Choosing Careers!

This book covers the basics of the samurai training of their children-setting goals, discipline, diligence, perseverance, respect for others and one's self, personal appearance, keeping things in order, living frugally, using intuitive and emotional intelligence, and tapping into cosmic power. The training included such cultural pursuits as poetry, painting, calligraphy, history, philosophy and social behavior, making the samurai one of the most remarkable groups of people in human history. The author maintains that the present-day systems of parenting and educating in the U.S. and elsewhere obviously fail to provide the physical, intellectual and emotional framework that youths need to even approach their full potential-and that adopting the samurai way of educating and training their children could dramatically reverse this cultural failing.