Secondary Age of Innocence

 CONTENTS:

• Mid-Childhood

• Fortitude

• Practical Focus

• Industriousness

• Late Childhood

• Responsibility

• Perseverance

• Patience

• Generosity

• Justice

Mid-Childhood

• Orientation

  • Objective view of world

  • Evolution of thought

  • Development of memory

• Impulses and their direction

  • Increase in energy

  • Companionship and games

  • The desire to know

  • The development of the concept of work

  • Directed attention

• The Feelings

  • Optimistic outlook and high self-esteem

  • Social feelings

  • Loosening of emotional bonds

  • Intellectual feelings

  • The ability to differentiate between good and bad

Fortitude

• Fortitude to counter obstacles

  • The personal way of living the virtue fortitude

  • The education in fortitude

Practical Focus

• Grouping Activities

• Grouping Virtues

Industriousness

• The Champion of all virtue

  • Practical considerations for industriousness

  • Standards

  • Motivation

  • Technical skill

• Motivation and ability applied to homework

  • Parents making a "DIF"ference in industriousness

  • Personal way of living industriousness

  • The education of industriousness

Late Childhood

• Interest and activity

  • Interest in what is real and theoretical thought

  • Predominance of abstract thought

  • Control of expression

  • The impulses and their direction

  • Phase of activity

  • Interest in collecting

  • Desire to win the respect of others

  • Greater need fo companionship

  • Play and the difference between the sexes

  • The ideal

  • Increase in strength of the will

• The feelings

  • Optimism

  • Loss of Spontaneity in social relationships

  • Shallowness of emotion

  • Critical attitude towards commands and prohibitions

  • Education

Responsibility

• Practical considerations of responsibility

  • Listen well

  • Respond to somebody

  • Decisions

  • Minimal or Maximum

  • Excuses & "jumping on the bandwagon"

  • For the teenage children

  • Unintentional actions

• Personal way of living responsibility

• The education

• Making a difference in responsibility

Perseverance

• Practical considerations of perseverance

  • General principles

  • Stages of perseverance

  • Short term objectives

  • Young children

• Difficulties

  • Spread over time

  • BLack of clarity

  • Inconstancy

  • Obstacles

  • Too many battle fires burning

  • Not knowing the standards

• The Personal way of living perseverance

• The education

• Making a difference in

Patience

• Practical considerations for patience

  • Patience is for the parents & children

  • The influence of the environment

  • Looking for instant results

  • "The Good" is difficult and vice may "feel good."

  • Stage of development

  • Stage one

  • Motives for being patient

    • Serenity

• Patience at different ages: small children

  • children who react intensely

  • children who are easy-going

  • Older children

• Being patient with children

• Personal way of living patience

• The education

• Making a difference in patience

Generosity

• Practical considerations of generosity

  • Forgiveness is generosity

  • Motives

  • In summary

• Personal way of living generosity

• The education

• Making a difference in generosity

Justice

• Three aspects structures of a just act 

  • Children's relationship with others

• Justice up to the age of nine

• From nine to thirteen

  • Points connected with the will

• Reasons for being just

• Position and circumstances

• Parental justice

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