I don’t think that many small children talk about the right thing to do in this sense. More likely, what the kid means by ‘the right thing to do’ is ‘the right thing according to a value system which is not really my own, but which I won’t openly dispute because my parents and other people I value/fear seem to want me to agree with it’. Except they could not possibly articulate that because they don’t really have the concepts of ‘value system’ or ‘right thing to do’. Their concept of ‘the right thing to do’ is a model of another person’s values created without the meta level of understanding what a value system is or that there can be more than one value system.
You could explain to them that it doesn’t make much sense to call it the right thing to do if they don’t want/value it.
I don’t think that many small children talk about the right thing to do in this sense. More likely, what the kid means by ‘the right thing to do’ is ‘the right thing according to a value system which is not really my own, but which I won’t openly dispute because my parents and other people I value/fear seem to want me to agree with it’. Except they could not possibly articulate that because they don’t really have the concepts of ‘value system’ or ‘right thing to do’. Their concept of ‘the right thing to do’ is a model of another person’s values created without the meta level of understanding what a value system is or that there can be more than one value system.