Ways to teach empathy to even very small children.
1. Teach them about emotions.
2. Read and watch TV together.
3. After conflicts, discuss what everyone was feeling.
4. Let them see you resolve conflicts in your own life.
5. Speak for people/creatures who can’t speak.
When we voted for President Obama, what were we motivated by? Yet again, this was a function of the Republican Party’s failure to be empathic. They could not imagine why those at the margins — women, people of color, gays and lesbians, young p…
Dr. M. Hisham Hawasli gives a lecture titled “Empathy” at Al-Farooq Masjid on Tuesday, August 14, 2012.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
Are the rich really the unfeeling boors they’re made out to be? Pity the poor plutocrat. Politicians want to tax them, Occupy Wall Streeters mock them, 99% of their fellow citizens are mad at them (even if they secretly want to be one of them)….
Social psychologists are making an argument that Occupy Wall Street protesters have been saying for months: Many rich people just aren’t in the habit of thinking of others. According to researchers at the University of California-Berkeley, peo…
