Help Your Kids Become Confident, Kind, Problem Solvers By Talking With Them With Dr. Rebecca Rolland
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How to Support Empathy and Perspective Taking in Kids
When my son had difficulty sleeping, we hired a sleep consultant. She was awesome from Compassionate Sleep Solutions. And one of the assignments that she gave us was to go into the room and tell him, I'm here, I hear you crying, I hear how hard this is. This is what learning how to sleep sounds like. You're soothing yourself when you're crying. We were also talking to ourselves to make it through the night. Then we would talk with him during the day to prepare him and say things like tonight, this is what's going to happen. Now, thinking about that, rationally, I'm talking to a six month old, he doesn't understand all
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