b. Nurturing
i. Prize warmth, explanation and encouragement over the pursuit of obedience. Differentiate between discipline and suppression of exploratory impulses.
c. Showing Compassion
i. By showing compassion to a child, a parent teaches morality rather than insisting upon rule-following. This produces a child in whom "morality is not imposed…from outside but emerges from within and is learned by cooperating with their parents." (Gray)
IV. Personal Identity
a. Self and society
i. A child is only beginning to understand the connection between herself, her community and her larger world. A positive personal identity allows the child to be defined as part of a greater spiritual wholeness. Hart refers to 'interconnectedness."
b. Finding Inner Guidance
i. Personal growth is marked by a distinctly...
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