I recently had an encounter with other parents where it was difficult for some to understand what it’s like to parent a child with special needs. I realized we often receive sympathy, when we really ...

Parents want to raise kids who care about other people’s feelings and who have an inner moral compass. Of course, that’s much easier said than done. From a young age, children should learn to value ...

Imagine you are picking up your child from daycare or school. You ask your child how her day was and maybe talk about plans for the rest of the day. Suddenly, you hear on the radio an interview with ...

Empathy is wired into our brains. We actually have cells in our brain called mirror neurons, which fire as if we are doing the same task as another person is doing, or feeling what they are feeling.

Kids can often be self-centered, especially when they’re young. But how the adults in their lives talk to them can teach them to think about others and develop empathy as they’re growing up and into ...

I am a principal at an alternative school. Most of our students have been expelled or counseled out of other schools due to behavior issues. We have all had your training, and we’ve all read your book ...

When I was a kid, there was no such thing as a social and emotional curriculum. Feelings were something to work out on the playground, or after the last bell of the day rang. Today, my elementary-age ...

At school, children learn their mother tongue, a secondary language, mathematics, scientific concepts, geography and history, among other things. Yet there's nothing to teach them how to name and ...