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September 17, 2014   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

A four-year-old can barely distinguish between right and wrong, between cause and effect, between his or her home and the whole world.     
Good and bad are still vague notions for a preschool child. "They are in the beginning stages of learning that there are rules and reasons you do and don't do certain things," licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist and writer on child discipline Amy Morin said.
Preschoolers often cannot distinguish between intent and behavior.
"Preschool-age children judge actions by the damage done; the more the damage the more serious the crime," according to the Child Study Center of New York University. "For example, they consider breaking four dishes while helping to clean up a more serious crime than breaking one dish deliberately."
Four-year-olds typically rely on something called transductive reasoning, which links similar people, actions or events in obvious (but factually incorrect) ways. Accordi...

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