(June 6, 2018 at 4:53 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(June 6, 2018 at 3:03 pm)CDF47 Wrote: Based on the article below, 19 months is when a child shows understanding of right from wrong.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/new...onths.html
A sense of fairness, like empathy, != morality.
With little kids, especially, their notions of fairness are filtered through a selfish lens. "What's fair to me?"
I have a young niece and nephew (5 and 6 respectively). Despite their parents and extended family (including myself) teaching them to share their toys among themselves and not fight over them, they inevitably do. Because their notions of fairness extend only to the boundary of their reach. It's unfair, to them, that one of them played with the cool toy for some unspecified length of time. Or that one of the toys belongs to them, and they want it back. Or that the other person won't engage in a patently unfair toy playing trade because they're smart enough to know that it's not in their best interest. Or another slight, real or imagined.
Again, parenting would be a lot easier if kids came out of the womb with morality intact. Instead, much of it is learned.
I could see that as being true regarding sharing of toys. Kids can be selfish, especially at that age.
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