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A 5 page paper. Parents would like their children to do what is right because it is the right thing to do but young children are not developed enough to do so. This paper provides a brief introduction to moral development theories of Kohlberg, Bronfenbrenner and Piaget, reporting only the stages relevant to a 6-year-old child. The discussion demonstrates that children may behave in moral ways but for different reasons. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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parents who expect their 6-year-old to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing are expecting too much. Different theorists have offered guidance on the moral development
of children. Lawrence Kohlberg, the most often cited theorist in the field of moral development, proposed three broad stages of moral development and six specific stages (Boeree, 2003). The first
four are reported here as they relate to our 6-year-old child. Level I: Pre-conventional morality. Very young children are moral in a somewhat primitive way: 1. Punishment-obedience Orientation or
the reward and punishment stage (Boeree, 2003), also known as Egocentric Reasoning. Toddlers up to about the age of 4 are at this stage of moral development. The orientation is
to avoid punishment and get rewards (Boeree, 2003). Decisions are made based on the pain or pleasure the act will bring to the child. 2. Personal Reward Orientation, also called
the exchange stage (Boeree, 2003). Beginning by about age 5, the child realizes other people have their own interests that should be considered so they engage in an exchange, Ill
do this if you do that (Boeree, 2003). The child is concerned about what is fair but not necessarily concerned with justice (Boeree, 2003), Level II: Conventional morality. By about
the time the child enters elementary school, so about age 6, they may be capable of conventional morality although they could still act under the two previous stages (Boeree, 2003).
3. Good boy-Nice girl Orientation (Boeree, 2003). At about age 6, children begin to try to live up to the expectations of others and actively seek approval. The child begins
to become concerned with things such as trust, loyalty, and gratitude (Boeree, 2003). They may adhere rigidly to a concrete version of the Golden Rule but that may be limited
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