Your child's moral education (1 Viewer)

[egg_]

Isabelle keeps asking about good and bad. Are sharks bad? Are tigers bad? I say "well, animals can't really be bad, but if they're hungry they might eat you, so they are dangerous"

Should I just say "they're bad"? Or "don't worry about it dear, most sharks are ok but some of them are bad"? Or what?

 

[magicbastarder]

tell her nature is amoral and not to draw any moral conclusions from any natural phenomenon.

 

[egg_]

Well, that's what I have been doing, pretty much.

Starting to worry now though that it mightn't be the right approach

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Tell her that sharks are bad but tigers are good.

 

[Squiggle]

Tricky one.

I explained to my niece (think she's about the same age as your daughter) that animals, and some people, don't know the difference between good and bad.

When the dog bit her she was at great pains to explain to her granny that it wasn't the dog's fault because it didn't know it shouldn't have bitten her and that it wasn't a "bad dog".

I was all for having the animal put down myself.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Ask her has she had a conversation with a real shark or tiger or whatever,explain that she can't judge until she knows them.
Nature being amoral is probably the best though.

 

[dleacht]

Its the same as people there are some bad and some good. So the sharks thing works the same, some good some bad. If they are going to eat you then they are bad

 

[flashback]

I always felt sharks were more naughty than bad.
And Tigers are clearly the Fonzies of the animal world. Cooool.

 

[Anthony]

The Emperor is bad. Yoda is good.

 

[Pantone247]

dude quit ragging on the sharks already....

 

[flashback]

would you settle on "a bit cheeky" pantone?
Because, I mean, some of them sharks can be fierce cheeky.
Take this lad for instance. Lord knows what sort of schemes he's planing.

 

[snakybus]

Refer her to my thread on "what is evil"!

 

[ernesto]

would you settle on "a bit cheeky" pantone?
Because, I mean, some of them sharks can be fierce cheeky.
Take this lad for instance. Lord knows what sort of schemes he's planing.

 

[Diddles]

Four legs good. Two legs bad.

No legs somewhere in between.

 

[flashback]

as long as crabs are designated as bad, the exact ins and outs of the classification methodology don't worry me.

 

[Pantone247]

I think someone should start two threads on 'Lifestyle'

LIST OF GOOD THINGS

LIST OF BAD THINGS

that'll run for weeks

 

[MDR]

I'd probably just say 'I dunno - sharks look bad but then they're great swimmers - what do you think isabelle?' and then wait for the comedy gold to start flowing. It's funny how kids can often think up an answer to their own questions.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

people with questions on sharks should be directed to this thread - post #10

 

[Diddles]

How do you teach a three month old baby morals?

Going rasher and shouting "goya goya goya goya goya goya" like a gobshite at four o'clock in the morning is just plain evil, but HMB won't listen.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Isabelle keeps asking about good and bad. Are sharks bad? Are tigers bad? I say "well, animals can't really be bad, but if they're hungry they might eat you, so they are dangerous"

i think your on the right track with this one. if you tell her some of them are bad she might start thinking its her responsibility to teach them good and smack the dog or something. next she'll be smacking her classmates at school and eventually calling for reintroduction of the lash.