Talk to a child (three to eight-years-old) about a variety of moral issues, e.g.:
What is bad? What is good?
Give the child a moral dilemma relevant to his or her world (make the characters children and the issue posed a familiar one).
How does the child respond?
Can you identify any moral principles?
Can you identify which of Kohlberg’s stages seems to describe the child’s reasoning?
Identify which of Kohlberg’s stages seems to describe the child’s reasoning.