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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective
By Erin Clabough — 2019
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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