Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.
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Children learn what they live.
When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big catalog, and start reading the child all these individual rules from A to Z. When we raise a child, a lot of what we do is let the child experiment and guide the experimentation. The child basically has to process his own data and learn from experience.
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
Young children need to develop good habits that will be useful to them the rest of their lives. It is important to keep the lessons age-appropriate. For example, when your children start earning allowances, that would be a good time to teach them how to put some money in the bank instead of spending it all.
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.
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.
Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.
My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.