The child can not be selfish only nor generous only; he may seem to be this or that, in this circumstance or that, but he is really social all the time.
Furthermore, his sense of right and wrong, his Ethical Sense, grows up upon this sense of the social bond.

This I can not stop to explain further.

But it is only when social relationships are recognised as essential in the child's growth that we can understand the mutual obligations and duties which the moral life imposes upon us all.
_How to Observe Children, with Especial Reference to Observations of Imitation._--There are one or two considerations of such practical importance to all those who wish to observe children that I venture to throw them together--only saying, by way of introduction, that nothing less than the child's personality is at stake in the method and matter of its imitations.

The Self is really the form in which the personal influences surrounding the child take on their new individuality.
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No observations are of much importance which are not accompanied by a detailed statement of the personal influences which have affected the child.