What's a Parent's Role?

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Parents can model loving, caring, compassionate behavior starting early in a child's life.

At age three, parents can begin to talk about The Golden Rule.

Parents can discuss how to treat others and how to make good choices in behavior.

Parents can ask children to consider how their actions make others feel.

Often parents think about how to get their children to understand right from wrong. Maybe a better way to think about it is to consider how to handle the development of a sense of ethics and morality in your children. Do you have any idea where to start? Or, in all the hustle bustle of daily life, has this part of your child's education gone by the wayside?

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