It is the parents responsibility to set rules and guidelines, to teach right from wrong and to make sure the child knows the difference between good and evil. Children especially very young children cannot be relied upon to learn these ideals and values on their own. Very young children have minds that are very pliable and easily led and that is why instruction from responsible parents is key and important.
Of course its in genes. Everything is.
"How about I punch you in the nose?"
"Don't do that - that would be wrong."
"So you do know. Not that hard now, is it?"
i have trouble accepting that because a child reacts a certin way, that they are expressing a moral opinion. they might simply be agreeing with the general mood - go along to get along, or might be connecting kindness to their mother’s care, something that they may be famliar with, not necessarily attach moral values to.
kids are extremely perceptive - they can tell whether they are supposed to like or detest something. they pick up on subtle signals.
The author needs to cite a reference in the Bible that says everything he just said.
Born with a sinful nature, yes but not incapable of telling right from wrong. A little bit of truth combined with a lie is a lie.
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There’s a difference between wrong, harmful and protective. Children need instruction.
I believe it’s all in the way God designs/creates each of us, in order to fulfil His plan.
Rom 1:25-27
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen.26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
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No kidding.
One of the first concepts a child learns and verbalizes is,....
*It’s not FAAIIIIRRRR!!!!*
I guess Lord of the Flies was totally wrong....
Kids need civilization firmly pounded into them, some more than others.
it’s in the genes. everything is. DNA is a coding language and God is the Supreme Geek.
Recent studies — and generations of experience — show that many animals have a rudimentary sense of fair play and equity.
>>But to parents of preschoolers,
>>the question itself was meaningless.
And that’s precisely why sexualy (homo and otherwise) dysfunctional Activists have been enabled in their bamboozling of the public edumacation into allowing them to “teach” that Mary has “Two mommies” and trees have “Partners”.
For men with minds created free by God - IT SHOULD NOT BE “MEANINGLESS”.
The author posited that the man questioning how to find right from wrong (or even if such exist, I guess) might be a Hindu.
The Hindu scriptures not only teach that there is absolute right and wrong, the topic is vast and detailed.
But she just didn’t know. I’m just setting the record straight!
But children also have a natural sense to take what isn’t theres and fight with people over nothing and steal and lie and assult others too. I imagine anyone who has ever watched preschoolers or even toddlers knows this; they act as of anything that looks like theirs is theirs and take it from other toddlers and hit and bite at each other and scream and cry over nothing. Their rules are, if it was mine, it is always mine. If it looks like something that is mine, even if someone else is now playing with it, it is mine, period. Humans truly do have the nature to fight and make war born within them, one of many reasons why I regret being human.