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Teaching Kids To Love Themselves To Love Others – Teaching Empathy

Allison McDonald — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:03:19 +0000

Place your mask on first before assisting others. This phrase is used often when parents speak to each other about self-care, but it can be applied to teaching empathy and diversity too. Before a child can recognize valuable things in others they need to see that they are valuable for who they are not what […]

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DIY Emotional Intelligence Card Games For Kids

Allison McDonald — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 05:55:03 +0000

I take a lot of pictures of my kids and not just for the blog. I wanted to use these pictures to help my children develop stronger emotional intelligence especially reading other people’s emotions. This may seem like an easy thing to do ” Just look at how they are feeling.” but it’s not. Young […]

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Teaching kids empathy

Allison McDonald — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:22:25 +0000

Make it personal. To make something personal we need to understand where other people are coming from, we need to put ourselves in their shoes, to empathize. How do you teach children empathy for others ? Show them empathy. Openly empathize with others as an example. Talk about feelings, a lot. Theirs, yours, anyone’s. Talk […]

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Emotional Snowmen – Exploring Feelings with Kids

Allison McDonald — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:01:09 +0000

by Kim We talk about emotions a lot in our house. When you foster, it kind of comes with the territory and makes things a lot easier to have open communication. So I am always trying to come up with new ways to talk about emotions and feelings with my children. Enter my “emotional snowmen”. […]

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Everyday Kindness

Allison McDonald — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:43:30 +0000

I am guest posting today at Toddler Approved . My post explores ways that we try to fit kindness into every day tasks and how leading by example is so hard some days. It is part of their 100 Acts of Kindness Project a series about ways to express, celebrate and teach about kindness. So […]

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