We have started our conversation with our students about compassion with a review of the word ’empathy’. All of us need to be understanding and sensitive to people’s feeling and that really is empathy. If we take that a step further with compassion when we don’t just recognize the feeling, but care deeply about their discomfort and take steps to reduce their suffering.
Our children are exposed to highly competitive environment and way too many acts of violence on TV and quite frankly in their own life. They are very sensitive to the attitudes and actions of those around them and recognize violence in its simplest forms. They like ourselves can become jaded to these acts and so that makes teaching compassion that much more important in todays world.
So this week coming up we will discuss how what we do and say can affect how others feel. Take some time this month to point our when we see compassion in action and praise our children for showing compassion to others.