Empathy is the ability to notice, understand and respond to another person’s feelings with care. It sits quietly at the ...

Empathy grows in the small stuff. These everyday moments help children notice feelings, take another person’s perspective, ...

I recently had an encounter with other parents where it was difficult for some to understand what it’s like to parent a child with special needs. I realized we often receive sympathy, when we really ...

Imagine you are picking up your child from daycare or school. You ask your child how her day was and maybe talk about plans for the rest of the day. Suddenly, you hear on the radio an interview with ...

Parents want to raise kids who care about other people’s feelings and who have an inner moral compass. Of course, that’s much easier said than done. From a young age, children should learn to value ...

I perched on the edge of an undersized plastic chair across from my daughter’s teacher at our first elementary parent/teacher conference of the year. “ Your daughter listens well and is so well ...

The children's charity Barnardos has called for Government funding to extend a project which bring babies into classrooms to teach students how to talk about their emotions.

As a child, Ann Ott sought solace in Tippy, her family's dog, after she was sexually abused. As she worked through the trauma, Ott would hug Tippy and cry almost every night. "She slept with me and ...

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