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Sympathy, Empathy, Compassion: Do We Need All Three?
These 8 simple suggestions can help our children develop sympathy, empathy, and compassion.
As parents and grandparents, do we want to encourage the development of all three to help our children grow into caring adults? Do we want them to become adults who won’t look the other way when someone is being bullied, unfairly treated, ridiculed, or simply experiencing emotional pain resulting from a circumstance or relationship? I would hope the answer would always be “yes.”