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Building Character in Children and Youth

By Kendra Moyses — 2013

Learn how you can help your child learn to bounce back and stretch their limits when setbacks happen. Seven easy ways to build resilience in kids.

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An Introduction to Emotional Intelligence

The definition of emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, differentiate, and manage our emotions and the emotions of others. The notion of emotions being important in our lives goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks.

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Harvey Deutschendorf
2022
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A Neuroscientist on How to Really Read to Kids

How adding 30 seconds to a bedtime routine can foster empathy in a big way.

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Erin Clabough
2016
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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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Erin Clabough
2019
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How to Raise Empathetic Kids: 5 Simple Things All Parents Should Do

Raising an empathetic and kind kid is a beautiful thing, but it’s also important to prepare kids for the real world.

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Lizzy Francis
2020
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How to Nurture Empathy in Children

Children are hard-wired for empathy, but it needs to be gently brought to life. Adults are in a prime position to nurture and develop empathy and emotional wisdom in their children.

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Karen Young
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How to Be More Empathetic

More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us. The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems.

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Claire Cain Miller
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7 Practical Ways to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence measures our ability to perceive our own emotions, as well as the emotions of others, and to manage them in a productive and healthy way.

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Hannah Braime
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5 Skills to Help You Develop Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you a more emotionally intelligent person.

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Mark Manson
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