The four elements to raising humane children are:
1) Providing information: This can be about a particular subject or generally being inquisitive.
2) Teaching critical thinking: Bring curiosity and skepticism to all information, listening to many points of view and asking questions.
3) Instilling reverence, respect, and responsibility
4)Offering positive choices

Reverence (emotion)-->Respect (attitude)-->Responsibility (act)

Reverence invites us to feel deeply and intimately a profound appreciation for the world, for its people, its animals, its beauty, mystery, and its complexity. It is a powerful emotion that helps foster such qualities of compassion, patience, love, kindness, perseverance, restraint, and honesty. 45

Ask yourself these 4 questions:
1. Am I seeking out and providing important information to my child?
2. Am I teaching my child to think critically?
3. Am I nurturing reverence, inspiring respect, and instilling responsibility in age appropriate ways?
4. Does my child understand that she has choices to improve herself and the world?