It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're thoughtful of other people and that they learn the consequences of their actions.
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I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.
It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.
I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.
Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.
I think its important, particularly when you've got young children, to spend some time with them.
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
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