[creekster]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I think Piaget and Kohlberg have more insights than santos and creekster into moral development of children.

here's a sampling:
http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm

So will you prevent your children from being baptized until they demosntrate the sort of moral reasoninbg piaget suggests might be apporiopriate? IOW, will you wait until they are 10 or 11 to have them baptized? Seriously?

I never said I had special insight, by the way, but I found Reheadgal's crtiicism of Jay's opinion to be rather self-serving. I think we are all experssing opinons here, and I am happy to discuss anyone's, but I think that type of appeal to the basis for our insight is rather useless in this type of forum.

I very, very briefly reviewed the article and I am not sure it is incompatible with my own thoughts which were very inartfully expressed above. IOW, the choice from the 8 yold's world view is sufficient for the purposes of baptism. That this world view will change dramatically over the years is almost always true for every decisions.