A group of six-year-olds are playing and one of the children falls, scrapes her knee and starts crying. One child offers a reassuring “I’m sorry you’re hurt” and shows a desire to comfort. On the other hand another child laughs and calls, the child “cry baby.”
The little illustration above is a common experience among children. It happens every time; most times we just laugh over such experiences and forget it afterwards. Truth be told, such reactions and responses tell a great deal about the kind of family (home) each child is coming from - whether it's a caring one or an uncaring one. Your children will only develop into caring adults or individuals if they have experienced same growing up.
Bringing up moral children is a way of saying, teach your children to live by the rules. If you want your children to go about treating others like you want others to treat them, then you have to teach them how to be able to think through an action before doing it and to judge how the consequences of that action will affect themselves and others; in this lies the basis of a moral person.
It’s in the family caring children are raised;
parents are the child’s first morality teachers. Observations as well as
countless studies show that infants are more likely to become moral children
and adults if they experienced their parents doing same. The one quality that
distinguishes these children from kids raised in a detached parenting style is
sensitivity. Plant it in your children good morals and watch it sprout. Other
virtues, such as self-control, compassion, and honesty and so on are by
products. Here’s how to raise morally upright children.
