What parents need to remember
Moral education should in no case be reduced to imposing restrictions and prohibitions. It is possible, of course, to force a child to act as is customary through punishment and threats. This approach will really give results for some period. It cannot be completely excluded from the upbringing process, especially in the early stages and in cases where failure to comply with parental requirements may pose a potential threat to the health and life of the child. But from a long-term point of view and as the baby grows up, this tactic will turn out to be ineffective and even harmful. After all, it is important not just to force the child to follow a certain set of rules, but to instill in him an understanding of the need for these rules. To form in him an attitude towards power (in the broad sense of the word) based on acceptance of its objective authority, and not out of fear of punishment. In the process of moral growth, a child must gain an understanding of why he should act and treat others this way and not otherwise. Parents who choose this path should call upon attentiveness, patience, tactfulness, objectivity and fairness as assistants.
Goals of moral education
Preschool period
The stage of infancy is characterized by the formation in the child of a sense of himself as the center of the world, in which everything serves the immediate satisfaction of his needs. Those around you serve as a source of what you need and want.
At the next stage, as a rule, by the age of one and a half years, the child begins to form the first internal limitations. He gets acquainted with the world, encounters the first prohibitions, learns the first rules. The first conflicts arise. Standards of behavior are established based on obedience to adults.
Moral education of preschool children takes place in the family and in child care institutions
Between the ages of three and seven years, a decisive turn in moral growth occurs, associated with the child’s assimilation of the values of the small group in which he resides.
Family norms become decisive as the baby finds important what is important to the parents. These values are reinforced through a process of continuous reminder. The child gains the ability to appreciate how his actions affect others. He learns to pay attention to them. It is at this age that the foundation of his understanding of “what is good and what is bad” is laid, and the foundation of his own system of moral values is created. In addition to realizing the need to obey adults, the formation of an understanding begins that parents are responsible for it.
