[Research has found that] ... parents whose children were “baby altruists” by two years firmly prohibited any child aggression against others. Adults not only restated their rule against hitting, for example, but they let the little one know that they would not tolerate the child hurting another.
ATTRIBUTION:
Alice Sterling Honig (20th century), child psychologist. “Helping Children Become More Caring and Cooperative,” NYSAEYC Reporter (Winter 1994).
