Status Updates From Creating Compassionate Kids...

Notes: verbalizing inner voice to give a child insight into how you think, being descriptive, emphasizing a growth mindset, dialoguing to deal with issues rather than authoritarian "because I said so" approaches, modeling consistent ethical behavior, apologizing for your mistakes in an open way, expecting children to make the same mistakes repeatedly (repetition is important in the learning process), deep listening.

From infancy on, caregivers have to consistently develop empathetic, loving, honest, open, non-judgmental patterns of communication with children, so that these children can live from secure attachments.

They must acknowledge their feelings and engage them respectfully. Especially in early childhood, a child’s brain is rapidly growing neuronally. Every experience matters in the shaping of their potential.