#Ethics and morals for children

[kidsinnowadays]

What Is Good for Children's Character Development: Instilling Values and Ethics

Instilling values and ethics is vital for children's character development, fostering strong moral foundations. #CharacterDevelopment #ValuesEducation #ParentingTips #EthicalGrowth

Values and ethics are critical pillars of a child’s development that shape who they become as adults. Instilling strong principles in kids from an early age helps them grow into good, moral citizens of society. As children learn discernment between right and wrong, it positively influences their choices and behaviors for years to come. Beyond just rules for acting appropriately, values provide…

[furiousgoldfish]

When you grow up with only abusers around you, it can be hard to find an environment in which you can learn morals, basic values and integrity that most children have access to, if they're surrounded with healthy, just, moral adults. Even as children, we often understand viscerally that we don't want to be like our parents, even if we think they love us or whatever, we firmly see that something is wrong, this person is doing damage, we don't want to turn out like this.

Our experiences in school (if we attend it) can give us a little insight into how a person is expected to behave in an everyday setting, but it is still an environment of constantly being controlled, having to do as we're told, only getting to socialize in little breaks and often struggling to socialize because you have not been offered a proper socialization. At young age you can only mimic what you saw in others, and for you this can mean extreme behaviour, erratic behaviour, isolation, complete apathy, switching from one extreme to the other. It can make you blacklisted in your group of peers, because nobody can understand you or predict your behaviour; you can get called a freak. Your new environment can label you problematic and make you feel like you don't belong there, either. And you don't even know what you've done wrong.

In times like this, we often turn to media to learn what's normal, what ethics we should follow, what values we should integrate in our lives, and this is something that can't cut us out, or call us 'not good enough'. It's a little refuge where we get the chance to learn without being punished for screwing up, or even anyone knowing you screwed up, because you're learning by observing characters who don't observe you.

I remember as a child vividly feeling enlightened, and almost consumed by media that promoted messages of friendship, found family, people sticking together, caring about each other, saving each other. Not only it felt incredibly real, but the morals and messages they promoted, got engraved deep into my heart. I wanted nothing else but to live a life like that, if only I found the right people, or found myself in the right situation. It felt profound, important, life-saving.

When people you're surrounded with are manipulative, self-serving, guilt and shame inflicting and utterly cruel individuals, the depth and emotion you get from media feels powerful. The fact that you can feel and yearn for something that is more pure than you have in your surroundings, that you can reach for higher and deeper and more honest human experience, it can set you apart from the abusers you're surrounded with. It can feel more real than reality, more right and true than what you have in your life.

And the thing is, morals and positive messages from children's media, or even other types of media, aren't made to be adapted by people in real life. They're made for this other, fantastical reality and they don't exactly work in the real world. But for us, they're a step that we take in order to wrench ourselves free from the horrifying and bleak picture we have in our everyday reality - nobody caring about anyone, people exploiting every little bit of free will, being told that your life doesn't matter - we need something fantastical and powerful to combat that shit. We need to believe there's something better out there, and we need a chance to learn how to conduct ourselves when the time is right, what values we should have, what behaviours we should learn.

It's not a perfect help, but it is often the only help we get. Sometimes we can end up a little wonky, with our priorities and dreams slightly unrealistic, because of the mix that we've been brought up in. But it isn't for no reason. We have to believe that there's a fantastic heaven for us somewhere, because we're currently in hell, and we need to know that surviving it is worth it. That there's a different reality waiting for us outside. Place where we belong to.

[claraameliapond]

For Australia, 26th January is invasion day, and that's literally it.

Today is a horrifically sad day in Australian history. Invasion day.

That's literally all it is.

Please please please do not join in the chorus of racism wishing anyone a "Happy Australia day" on the 26th of January

We can, have and are moving forward together as a country,

But we cannot truly do so if a celebration of our country and identity is held on the literal anniversary of the brutal and long-standing invasion, massacre and occupation of Australian aboriginals, the first peoples of Australia.

This invasion and subsequent violent Colonisation was full of many horrors that lasted well into the late twentieth century, and the long-standing repercussions of which have lasted to this day.

The stolen generations , in which generations - multiple generations of young aboriginal children were literally stolen by white colonists from their families, sent to missions, (detention boarding "schools ") , in which they were converted to Christianity and prepared for menial jobs, punished if they ever spoke their own languages, and subsequently put into the service of white families, with the intention to be bred out, never to see their families again. Never to be educated about their home, their families, their land, their culture, their languages, their history; they are the oldest continuing culture on earth. The last of these missions were in effect until 1969. By 1969, all states had repealed the legislation that allowed the removal of Aboriginal children under the policy and guise of "protection".

The indigenous health, longevity and poverty gaps still exist. Access to medicine, medical care, healthcare, a western education, all things we deem human rights by law, are not accessible to many rural communities still. They are provided, but in western ways, on western terms, with a gap of understanding how best to implement those services for an entirely different culture , that we do not have a thorough understanding of - that was what the referendum was about: , how best to implement the funds that are already designated to provide those services, because it's not currently working or usable by those communities. Our aboriginal communities are still not treated equally, nor do they have the same access we all enjoy to things like healthcare services, medicines and western education.

It is horrific and insensitive to therefore celebrate that day as our country's day of identity, because it's literally celebrating the first day and all subsequent days of the invasion, the massacres, the stolen generations, the subjugation and mistreatment, the inequalities that still persist today. It celebrates that day, that act committed on that day, of invasion , violent brutal massacres of Aboriginal people, as a positive, 'good' thing. As something that defines Australia's identity and should define an identity to be proud of.

That's nothing to be proud of.

Our true history is barely taught in our school curriculum, in both primary and secondary school. Not even acknowledged.

It needs to be.

We cannot properly move forward as a country until that truth is understood by every Australian, with compulsory education.

January 26th is Not 'Australia day'. It's Invasion day. It's a sorrowful day of mourning.

Please do not wish anyone a "happy Australia day " today.

It's not happy and it's not Australia day.

Australia day should be at the end of Reconciliation week that is held from the 23rd May to 3rd June.

A sentiment that is about all of us coming together as a shared identity within many identities, accepting and valuing each other as equal, a day that actually acknowledges Australian aboriginal peoples as the first Australians - because they are.

This is literally about acknowledging fact - that is the truth of Australian history. Aboriginal cultures should be celebrated and embraced, learnt from, not ignored, treated as invisible and especially not desecrated by holding celebrations of national identity on anniversaries of their violent destruction.

Australian aboriginal peoples, cultures and histories, should be held up as Australia's proud identity of origins, because it literally is Australia's origins.

That's a huge, foundational integral part of our shared identity that must be celebrated and acknowledged.

Inclusivity, not offensive exclusivity. Australia day used to be on 30th July, also 28th July, among others. Australia Day on the 26th January only officially became a public holiday for all states and territories 24 years ago, in 1994. It's been changed a lot before. It can certainly be changed so it can be a nonoffensive , happy celebration of our shared Australian national identity for everyone, that respectfully acknowledges and includes the full truth of our whole shared history, not just the convenient parts.

There is literally no reason it can't be changed, and every reason to change it.

#Always Was Always Will Be

[nando161mando]

The failure of state and territory governments to keep children out of detention centres has led the federal crossbench to call for intervention at the national level.

[reasonsforhope]

I'd love to ask you (and any of your followers who might feel inclined to share opinions) how you feel about the ethics/just plain sensibleness of having children in this uncertain world. I would deeply love to have and raise children, but my fear of the future and uncertainty about the world I would be bringing them into is paralyzing. I am extremely afraid of creating a human life, only for them to have to suffer in an unhappy/unsafe/undesirable world. Do you have hope for the world children born today (or in the next 5 years) will grow up and live in?

Open question for followers who would like to answer!

Personally, I do have hope for children born today. I think there will be a lot of upheaval, but we have been improving things so quickly on climate (in the past 5 years mostly) and genuinely massive improvements in life expectancy and quality of life in most of the developing world (mostly the past 23 years). I think that there's a real chance that the future, in 50 to 70 years, will look better than any of us still dare to dream.

That said... it's by no means guaranteed. And I think whether it's ethical to bring children into this world now is a very real question.

I posted a really long and incisive New York Times exposé about an hour ago, and this quote is much of its thesis:

"We are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse."

Ten years ago, fifteen years ago, preventing our own extinction looked near impossible. Now? "We have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years." (same exposé)

On the one hand, if we can do that, what will we be capable of once we really get going on climate change?

On the other hand, even if we're not totally doomed anymore, it's going to be an incredibly stressful world to be born into, with a lot of chaos and challenges we should never have had to face, and there's no way to know how much we will manage to do.

Honestly, though? Part of the reason I can be more optimistic about this is because I definitely don't plan to have kids anyway.

Which means that I don't HAVE to find the right answer to that question. I get off easy there, I honestly think. I'm really, really glad I that no one's life is resting on whether I guess right.

I know so many people who are struggling with this, I actually wonder if adoption will get more popular because of this very question.

More specifically, here's the advice I'd give: wait. Basically all of the biggest climate goals and climate commitments out there right now come due in 2030.

I genuinely think that in 2030, we will have a much, much better idea of what our future is going to look like - and whether it's a world we want to bring a child into.

And I hope so deeply that we will all be amazed.

So, followers and everyone else on this hellsite: What do you think?

[poligraf]

« Und Über Uns Der Himmel » (And Above Us The Sky) by Fritz Richter

[thewhizzyhead]

being a busy ass student with student journalism gigs on one hand and comm academic shit on the other is very interesting because with the jam-packed life I live I only really get to breathe at like late lAAATE night when no one can bother me about my responsibilities other than myself. that being said that's also when creative brain goes into overdrive and now misfits finally has the final draft of its opening number woo

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[blackswaneuroparedux]

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other - the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

- G.K. Chesterton

[triadic]

“When you encounter something beautiful … it means your luck has changed, ever so slightly, for the better.” —Timothy J. Patitsas, The Ethics of Beauty (2020), p. 94.

[progressivemother]

Morality and How To Teach Children

The philosophy of ethics are fascinating. What is the proper basis for morality? This question comes up frequently in discussions for various reasons – it tests the limits of science, the role of philosophy, and the role of religion. There has always been a vibrant discussion on the matter.

Many of those in religious circles will argue that religion is a source of morality but this couldn't be more far from fact. First, there isn't a general consensus on whether or not there are dieties of any kind. There are thousands of religions in the world and one cannot say that one in particular is fact. The "fact" of religion is really up to each individual and their beliefs shouldn't be shunned nor should they push their beliefs onto others. There is a philosophical dilemma inherent in basing absolute morality on religious faith.

I feel that moral reasoning should be based on science, philosophy, and an individual's own ethics. This is what I teach my children. They learn about different philosophies (including religions) and about sciences. They are learning that morals are more of a subjective thing instead of a objective thing. This way, they can grow into their own person with their own morals.

Morals can only be understood within the context of an individual. We all have things we care about; family friends, ourselves, out homes, etc. We have evolved our own sense of morals based on what we have learned throughout our lives. They are not based on what we are told to think by others. At least they shouldn't be. We need to think for ourselves.

As social animals, we have come to understand that we affect others both negatively and positively. We do naturally care about others, especially those we hold close to us. But we have to remember that there is no such thing as "natural" or "unnatural" morals in society. To think is such a way is a fallacy. Morals will always be subjective. Objective morals just do not exist.

The example I give most is that people say that one should never harm or kill another. But if we think about it, we cannot honestly tell a soldier that. They are there to defend their country and loved ones. Besides that, people need to be able to defend themselves. Killing is also a subjective moral.

You cannot tell others how to believe, what to believe, or how to live their lives based on your morals. Whether an act is regarded as “morally good” or “morally bad” must be a statement about how an individual feels about the matter, not those around them.

Saying that morals are “subjective” does not imply that they are unimportant. If morals were “objective” then they could be entirely unrelated to what matters to us. Subjective morals does not it mean your values are better than another's values nor does it mean you can't tell someone they are wrong. But my children are taught that only a few values matter in an objective matter such as murder for fun rather than necessity, lying without a good reason, or stealing unless necessary.

They are taught that murder could be necessary to protect someone, lying could be necessary to protect someone, and stealing could be necessary if someone is too poor to feed or clothe themselves. They are taught to mind their business if someone is stealing food if they cannot help them. If they can find a way to help without breaking laws or harming another, then they should. Buying food for someone who cannot feed themselves can be a good thing to do.

In the end, an individual's own ethics is what determines their morals. There are not objective morals in nature and to think so is fundamentally misleading. What my children and I know is that most humans are by nature good but humans are also selfish creatures by nature. Being selfish isn't wrong just like following your own morals isn't.

[allgoodthingsflowintothecity]

A lot of the more Christian On Main (and consequently not particularly good) episodes of the X-Files are weirdly pro-mercy killing children. What’s up with that, is that like in the Bible or something or did one of the writers just have a weird unaddressed past issue

[awesomecooperlove]

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[claraameliapond]

London Children share a message for children in Palestine

[nando161mando]