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Harvard Gazette | How Children Learn to Be Good

“Our belief in moral growth is no trivial matter.”
— Richard Weissbourd and Kiran Bhai

Making Caring Common Faculty Director Richard Weissbourd and Schools & Parenting Programs Director Kiran Bhai recently contributed to the piece, “How Children Learn to Be Good,” for The Harvard Gazette. In the article, they share how research indicates that both children and adults have a great capacity for moral growth and how a "growth mindset" is key to adults' efforts to help children "continually become more able to be and do good."

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