10 Questions to Evaluate the Strenth of your child's conscience part 3 and 4

3. How does your child handle mistakes and offenses?

Another sign of maturity is the ability to respond well when you've done the wrong thing. After all, the conscience prompts people on the inside when they've hurt someone, made a mistake, or done the wrong thing. But many kids don't know how to respond well to offenses. Instead, they react by blaming, rationalizing, justifying, and getting angry. Kids need a plan for dealing with wrongs. Plan to spend extra time this year teaching children how to handle their mistakes and offenses, learn from them, experience forgiveness, and move forward in life.

4. How is your child doing with honesty?

The conscience prompts a person to be honest. In fact, when you lie, cheat, or steal, the conscience provides a prompting in your heart that you've done the wrong thing. Spend some time teaching your kids how valuable integrity is. It has a number of practical benefits like receiving the benefit of the doubt, the privilege of privacy, the enjoyment of trustworthiness and most importantly, a peace on the inside, instead of the fear of wondering when you'll get caught.