This chapter highlights the importance of reading fiction in teaching children empathy. It explores how fiction allows readers to experience different perspectives and references classic books as examples.
"One of the wonderful benefits of reading fiction, studies have begun to show, is that it helps cultivate empathy... It also happens that fiction—the best fiction anyway—teaches us this empathy by way of specific advice and admonition."
Hear more about fictional works with a real message on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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