How To Teach Your Child Empathy

Episode 111 of the the Mudroom podcast, hosted by Allana Robinson, titled "How To Teach Your Child Empathy" was published on May 7, 2021 and runs 15 minutes.

May 7, 2021 ·15m · the Mudroom

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Summary

You know how kids will sometimes hurt or upset someone and then laugh? Or act indifferent?    That scares the crap out of us as parents, doesn't it?    A lot of parents struggle with teaching empathy.   No matter how much we explain why we should be nice and gentle...our kids do not care at all.    In this episode we're going to cover:   1) What is empathy?  2) Two things we must understand about how early childhood development before we try to teach our child. Grab the Scripts to Manage the Top 10 Crazy-Making Behaviours: prnt.link/scripts Watch the video recording here: Join the Parenting Posse: prnt.link/group the Mudroom is recorded live every Wednesday at 1:30pm ET/ 12:30pm CT/ 10:30am PT on Facebook: facebook.com/arfamilyservices

Episode Description

You know how kids will sometimes hurt or upset someone and then laugh? Or act indifferent?

That scares the crap out of us as parents, doesn't it?

A lot of parents struggle with teaching empathy.

No matter how much we explain why we should be nice and gentle...our kids do not care at all.

In this episode we're going to cover:

1) What is empathy?

2) Two things we must understand about how early childhood development before we try to teach our child.

Grab the Scripts to Manage the Top 10 Crazy-Making Behaviours: prnt.link/scripts Watch the video recording here: Join the Parenting Posse: prnt.link/group the Mudroom is recorded live every Wednesday at 1:30pm ET/ 12:30pm CT/ 10:30am PT on Facebook: facebook.com/arfamilyservices