How to help your children distinguish good from evil?

What does it mean for a parent to raise the moral and ethical conscience of the child? THE children they do not want any choice or decision to be imposed on them. They have made it clear that there is good and evil, and many times they know they are wrong, which is why they hide.

They immediately pause to implement a 'autonomy decision making. But next to the latter it is necessary to add the loyalty, a fundamental element in the development of decision-making capacity. It is a guarantee of acting according to consciousness. This is where the parenting educational commitment comes in. We live in a society where evil is rampant and it is for this reason that, many times, we would like to make choices in place of our children, because we consider them fragile, incapable. We must, in reality, learn to form consciences rather than replace them. Our job is create the conditions for the conscience of our children to be educated, formed.

The research of the good it is part of ourselves but we often stop at the subjective good, we measure the choices with what we like, for this we fall into selfishness. Adolescents and young people who are accused of unconsciousness are actually struggling with the definition of their moral identity. Unfortunately they continually receive messages and breathe a culture that determines a empty moral. For them it is as if everything has the same value. In this very problematic context, theassenza parenting and the intrusiveness of external conditioning, to which our children are very sensitive, determines a moral void into which they fall. Consequently, acting in conscience today can mean pursuing one's own subjective good.

This subjective view of the good does not correspond to the true good. A conscience that does so does not realize the person. Consciousness is it space holy where God speaks to man, is the place where he listens to the voice of God. The possibility of choose it is the basis of acting according to conscience and is one of the most important criteria. Children must be given little ones rules that enable them to choose. They must be able to recognize that in some cases they have made a mistake, they must understand that the conscience discovers the truth and welcomes it as a gift. We must help the children to recognize that action always follows a criterion. This is why educating the conscience means to help the son to recognize the criterion of acting.

Acting in conscience means moving and freely deciding to act within this framework of values, this is the walk to do. What is important is that the child moves and decides regardless of age, within this framework that he is warranty of good. The framework of values ​​to offer to children is the educational project on which parents are called to work.