ABSTRACT
In childhood this learning depends very largely on the role played by adults, because on the adults falls the task of helping the children to achieve social adjustment. Since understanding grows gradually from knowledge, our best way of helping children is to give them as much information as they can assimilate on every occasion. If children are helped to understand how and why events occur, both from the point of view of physical causation and from that of human motivation, they will gain self-knowledge over a wider field of experience than children who are not so helped. They will know more about their own thoughts and feelings if parents help and encourage them to remember and assess for themselves their own past experiences and behaviour. When young children quarrel it is very important that an adult should discuss with them the causes which led to the quarrel, and the feelings of each child before and during the trouble.
