Part I: Virtue. Chapter One: Aristotle and the dog whisperer ; How to become a kid whisperer ; Don't shoot the cat! ; The dog whisperer and the master of the impossible
Chapter Two: A rational animal ; Let's get meta-physical ; Animal + reason + human ; Vegging out ; Yuppies and their puppies
Chapter Three: Kids without chests ; Vulcans and stoics at the playground ; Teaching kids to laugh, cry, and get really ticked off
Chapter Four: The four moral characters ; Weak-willed King David ; Strong-willed Frodo ; Socrates: a virtuous man is hard to find ; Darth Vader: the vicious
Chapter Five: If it ain't easy, it ain't virtue ; The super athletes in Mexico's canyons ; Virtue is a habit: you are what you eat ; Chosen for its own sake ; The mean between extremes ; Mentors: Aristotle's support for parental outsourcing ; The complete definition of virtue
Part II: Friendship. Chapter Six: Your kid is a social animal ; The Milgrim experiment ; The Stanford experiment ; The still face experiment ; The bobo doll experiment ; Your kid's social environment ... is you
Chapter Seven: The three types of friendship ; Useful friendships: utilitarians in the sandbox ; Pleasure friendships: epicureans in the sandbox ; True friendship:Aristotle's kid in the sandbox ; Must be virtuous ; More about loving than being loved ; True friendship is infrequent
Chapter Eight: If Aristotle's kid was on Facebook ; Facebook and virtual presence ; The Mother Teresa effect ; Tweeting vs. conversation
Chapter Nine: If Aristotle's kid had an iPod ; Look at all the lonely people ; Aristotle would unplug his kid ; Set your kids loose
Chapter Ten: The other: from the sandbox to the altar ; In the sandbox ; In the sandlot ; At the prom ; To the altar
Part III: Happiness. Chapter Eleven: The real role of pleasure ; Aristotle vs. Tony Robbins ; The Lord of the Rings and the Ring of Gyges ; The real role of pleasure ; The necessity of health, wealth, and reputation
Chapter Twelve: The cardinal virtues: opening and closing the door to happiness ; Prudence: the x-factor ; Justice and the God-given right to pizza delivery ; Courage: the My Lai massacre ; Temperance: staying on the fairway
Chapter Thirteen: Aristotle, the Beatles, and Bill Gates ; The 10,000-hour rule ; It takes an ancient Greek village
Chapter Fourteen: Contemplation: telling your kid to get lost ; Aristotle's kid at the World Series ; Aristotle's kid at a concert ; Contemplation in friendship and marriage
Chapter Fifteen: Why your kid exists ; In the end, does Aristotle let us down? ; Happiness in everything ; Aristotle, Rudy Ruettiger, and Jerry Maguire ; Real good vs. perceived good ; The ultimate end
Aristotle's parenting assessment test
Aristotle's dictionary for parents
Virtue assessment for kids (and for parents too)
