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Podcast 486: 4 Tips to Raise Empathic Children

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

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How Empathy Can Lead to Social Connection

Look them in the eye do this gentle kind of talking and say and say something like I see you feeling a lot of different emotions and I can see it in your body. It's the nonverbal followed by the language sometimes you don't even need the language just come let's go here hug gentle hardly even saying anything or just gently guiding them over to the special space. Another example is rather than forcing your child to say sorry especially when they're young and they don't understand why you could say because let's say you know try to teach him to feel empathy. Lead to social connection so you seeing the impact of your action on someone else  you see that they said that they hurt

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