Well, Patty, I'm not sure that discernment can be learned early in life, now that you use the word. A spiritual mentor (well up in years!) started using the word to describe the decision-making I started making in my 40s. When I look at my college students -- they are worldly wise beyond their wise and astonishingly naive. No discernment there.

Perhaps we should pat ourselves on the back for, at long, getting this discernment "thing." We sure paid for it in experience!