Tips to Substitute Empathy for Envy
If you are a parent…
- Avoid comparing your kids. They will do it anyway but the comparisons add fuel to the fire.
- Teach your children that life isn’t always fair but the answer does not lie in either envy or self-pity. It makes more sense to do your best and leave the rest.
- Teach them some version of the Golden Rule. (For kids song, “We’re in the Same Boat” and lesson on this topic, you can download free here when sign up).
- Teach them that practice, hard work and
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Remember that we are all in the same boat
together in this voyage called life.
Empathy brings us together and
envy tears us apart.
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By DEBRA MANCHESTER MACMANNIS, LCSW
