Empathy
10 articles
How Moral Development Begins in Early Childhood
For most of the twentieth century, infants were thought to be moral blank slates — driven by need, indifferent to others, gradually socialised into mo...
How to Model Kindness in Everyday Life
A fairly common parental delusion is that kindness can be taught through lectures. The Bandura research suggests otherwise: children replicate what th...
How to Introduce Books and Stories to Build Empathy
When your child watches a character struggle, fear, hope, or feel disappointed—and you talk about what that character might be experiencing—something...
The Role of Empathy in Effective Parenting
Some parents worry that showing empathy to their child will spoil them or make them less willing to comply. In reality, empathy is foundational to sec...
How to Respond to Tantrums Without Punishment
The pull to punish a screaming toddler is real — to send them to their room, to threaten lost screen time, to raise your voice over theirs. It feels l...
How Empathy Develops in Toddlers
A 14-month-old who toddles over and pats your face when you're crying looks like an empath. A 14-month-old who then offers you their soggy cracker as...
Emotional Intelligence in Early Childhood
Emotional intelligence in adults predicts a lot — better relationships, better work performance, better mental health, sometimes more reliably than IQ...
Emotional Development at 24 to 36 Months
If 18–24 months is where many parents say "this is the hardest age," 24–36 months is where they say "I can see the light." The intensity is still ther...
Emotional Intelligence in Toddlers: Building Awareness from the Start
The phrase "emotional intelligence" has been used so broadly in popular culture that it has almost lost meaning. But the underlying research is solid:...
How Empathy Develops in Young Children
Empathy is often discussed as though it either exists or it doesn't — a fixed trait that some children are born with and others aren't. The developmen...