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Three Ways to Raise Empathic Kids So They Become Compassionate Adults

By Patricia Rockman, Evan Collins — 2019

Considering how to make the children in our lives better people helps us reflect on how we ourselves can be more compassionate.

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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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Compassionate Mind, Healthy Body

Compassion research is at a tipping point: Overwhelming evidence suggests compassion is good for our health and good for the world.

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The Compassionate Instinct

Think humans are born selfish? Think again. Dacher Keltner reveals the compassionate side to human nature.

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Why Your Brain Loves Kindness

If you’re familiar to meditation, then you’ve probably tried a basic loving-kindness practice. It involves bringing to mind someone you love, and wishing that they are safe, well, and happy—either out loud or to yourself.

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Understanding Others’ Feelings: What Is Empathy and Why Do We Need It?

Empathy is the ability to share and understand the emotions of others. It is a construct of multiple components, each of which is associated with its own brain network. There are three ways of looking at empathy.

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Does Your Brain Care About Other People? It Depends

People are hardwired to dehumanise others but we can overcome this, say David Eagleman and Don Vaughn.

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Why Do Kids Act Up?

According to neuroscience, our children are like puppies.

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Dr. Dan Siegel: What Hearing “Yes” Does to Your Child’s Brain

It's not about permissive parenting. It's about using "yes" to find ways to relate, which encourages kids to explore and be resilient, instead of starting at "no," which shuts them down.

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Helping Children Deal with Emotions