Judgement is both an innate and learned response. We have a natural instinct to judge our surroundings as part of our protective fight or flight mechanism but judging other people just by how they look is now less a survival response, and more a learned response. Can we teach our kids to be less judgmental and increase their empathy and compassion? These stories indicate we surely can. --Ameeta
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another." --Alfred Adler
Editor's Note: Judgement is both an innate and learned response. We have a natural instinct to judge our surroundings as part of our protective fight or flight mechanism but judging other people just by how they look is now less a survival response, and more a learned response. Can we teach our kids to be less judgmental and increase their empathy and compassion? These stories indicate we surely can. --Ameeta
Kindness In the News
Anna Partridge discusses five ways to raise non-judgemental children. She explores ways to educate them about others, so they have a genuine understanding and build on their own innate compassion.
A depressed high school student transformed herself and her school by founding a kindness club, which includes having "flash mobs" of students perform kindness acts together.
During the fall of 1979, Shuka Kalantari's entire class turned on her, and she became the victim of bullying. In this DailyGood article, she explores why we should teach empathy to preschoolers.
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