Ethics

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This paper explains that parents should begin at the earliest age possible to teach their children to be honest, caring and responsible adults. Teachers should reinforce these teachings as soon as a child enters the first year of formal education. The author stresses that by the time a child reaches school age, which in the U.S. is as young as four years old for pre-kindergarten classes, children should have a beginning understanding of basic morals. The paper underscores that, if children do not lean to treat others with compassion and to understand that their actions affect the feelings of others, then they have not received a basic education, just as not learning to read.

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"Three to five year-olds begin to parrot friends and television characters. Some of the things they pick up may be unacceptable to the parent, and this must be explained to the child bottle, blanket, or other comforting object of their own to a sibling in pain. They are acknowledging what they detect in others and using the things that comfort them to comfort another person. Some parents are surprised when a very young child tries to comfort a brother or sister in this way, when they should realize that the child has learned, from watching them, to offer comfort to another person."

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