Helping kids focus on empathy and compassion

Helping children develop empathy and compassion is crucial for fostering their emotional intelligence and creating a more compassionate society.

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What we're just modeling to them is a kindness toward humankind. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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Parents can help teach their children about compassion and empathy during times like this by engaging their children in conversations about morals

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and values and what do they think is happening, and to even share their own perspectives of things.

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If a parent is planning to donate, maybe they can have their kids sit next to them and show them what it looks like, really

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helping them understand that this money is going towards other kids that are just like you. What that does is it helps these children understand

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that they're not unlike everybody else and that everybody needs help. And it also helps foster kindness

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so that when they're able to take care of kids on the other side of the world, then they're more likely to also think

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about how they're taking care of their peers back home, too. Another thing that parents can also do is not just focus on the actual events of what's

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happening in Ukraine, but being able to even demonstrate to them what's happening around the world, all the protesting

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and what people are saying about Ukraine being attacked. And I think that it's really important to engage children

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in these kinds of conversations and also to continue to give them hope, to show that the world is coming together and this is what it looks like for people

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to care about each other, even though they have different backgrounds and they don't even speak the same language.