Quote Originally Posted by mkemse View Post
I would define Morals, a personal conduct, habits, ect like not only being polite but teacging children the dangers of Drugs, Unprotected Sex, aswell as other things parent feel they feel their kids need ot know as they gorw and learn Morals to me is a whole sum of how the persons, asks, behaves, how they treat ofthe,r what type of activities the ingage in, ie: sports, debate clases, drug or no drug use, having sex ect ect it encompases on they learn to live their lives ans how treat and act around others
Offhand I cannot think of a good word to encompass everything, but for now I will settle for "citizenship". All the things that children need to know to prepare them to be good citizens and good includes being good to themselves (eg drugs) and those they come into contact with (eg families).

Most of teaching and morality focuses on thing you should not do. But I would like kids to know about what you can do. To take drugs as an example it's not enough to simply say don't do drugs, offer an alternative way to have fun or overcome problems.

And there is another aspect of citizenship that disturbs me. All too often people are not aware of there rights. Governments are all to keen to tell you what you cannot do (eg laws) but don't seem so energetic about telling you your rights or assistance you are entitled to under law. Let's even the playing field a bit.