Children learn empathy and compassion over time and through practice.Things that you can do at home to encourage your child to be a compassionate and empathetic person.
These include:
- Modeling the ideals of caring and sharing with your children
- Volunteering with your children
- Using your own charitable donations to teach your children how to give back
Resources
- Bright Horizons' Toward a Better World website provides resources for helping children make a difference
- The Volunteer Family helps families find volunteer opportunities in their area and match them with their interests.
- Parent Webinar - Heather Jack and Bright Horizons discuss tips on how to raise socially-responsible children.
- http://www.futurephilanthropists.org/
- http://www.bigheartedfamilies.org/
- Oprah.com offers Ways for Children to Volunteer
- Parents.com suggests 14 little ways to encourage kindness
- Cooking Mom struggles with Finding the Working Mom/Volunteer Balance
- News Mom frets over a lesson not quite learned from her daughter's canned food drive
- Our parent community discusses:
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