How does sharing develop in children?
What will be an ideal response?
Students' answers may vary. Up to four years: Children share not for reasons of empathy but for the fun of the social play ritual or out of imitation.
Four to six years: At about 4 years of age, a combination of empathic awareness and adult encouragement produces a sense of obligation on the part of the child to share with others. However, children at this stage believe that they have an obligation to share but do not necessarily think they should be as generous to others as they are to themselves.
Middle and late childhood: Children's sharing comes to reflect a more complex sense of what is just and right during middle and late childhood. By the start of the elementary school years, children begin to express objective ideas about fairness.
By the mid to late elementary school years, children believe that equity sometimes means that people with special merit or special needs deserve special treatment.
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