What is inductive discipline, and how does it motivate children's active commitment to moral standards?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Answer: Using induction, an adult helps make the child aware of feelings by pointing out the effects of the child's misbehavior on others, especially noting their distress and making clear that the child caused it. For example, a parent might say, "If you keep pushing him, he'll fall down and cry" or "She's crying because you won't give back her doll." When generally warm parents provide explanations that match the child's capacity to understand, while firmly insisting that the child listen and comply, induction is effective as early as age 2. Preschoolers whose parents use it are more likely to refrain from wrongdoing, confess and repair damages after misdeeds, and display prosocial behavior.
The success of induction may lie in its power to motivate children's active commitment to moral standards in the following ways:
• Induction gives children information about how to behave that they can use in future situations.
• By emphasizing the impact of the child's actions on others, induction encourages empathy and sympathetic concern, which motivate prosocial behavior.
• Giving children reasons for changing their behavior encourages them to adopt moral standards because those standards make sense.
• Children who consistently experience induction may form a script for the negative emotional consequences of harming others: Child causes harm, inductive message points out harm, child feels empathy for victim, child makes amends. The script deters future transgressions.