Parents directly influence a child's morals and values through emulation of parental conduct (Lickona 21). The moral guidance we offer to them is added up and imitated by what they see (Coles 7). I believe that morality is the result of a triad of developmental qualities. Our emotional development makes us feel guilty when we do wrong. We experience social development that results in specific actions toward others and, finally, we gain cognitive development that permits us to empathize. Our morality comes to the forefront early in childhood. In elementary school, "a child becomes an intensely moral creature" (Coles 98). We develop a moral imagination, a capacity to reflect upon what is right and wrong with all the emotional and intellectual resources of the human mind (Coles 3). This is where we decide what we ought to do or not to do and why (Coles 7).....

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