-- Includes ideas for family education-- Presents a three-session family values curriculum-- Includes leader's guide and workbooks for parents and students-- User-friendly packet format is easy for teachers to work with-- Introduces students and parents to ethics through the concept of tikkun midot -- the repair of our moral life-- Uses text study, stories, discussions, and activities-- Teaches how to apply Jewish values to one's own life (tikkun midot), family life (tikkun bayit), and communal life (tikkun olam)-- Enables parents and children to learn together at a critical point in children's Jewish education-- Helps congregations prepare families for the significance of becoming bar/bat mitzvah-- Based on the concept that the goal of tikkun is not perfection, but rather the balancing of the actions in our lives-- During the program, families create a scrap-book that includes all of the work they complete during the three sessions