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A Plan to "Teach" Empathy - Input please?
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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 434004" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>My son in his program had a fairly scripted communication statements he had to practice. something along the lines of " I hear that you are angry. You are angry because I kicked you. It makes you angry when I kick you because it hurts you. My hope for me is that I can learn not to kick you. My hope for you is that you will help me...." Something like that. The point being part of empathy is learning to identify what others are feeling and what gives rise to those feelings. I think you might want to have some kind of script that each person can follow so that the exercise doesn't degenerate into more name-calling. Perhaps you might want to have a happy jar too. "It made be feel really good when you helped me do the dishes tonight...... " </p><p></p><p>good luck! I suppose that there are some people who will never have empathy, but maybe many of our kids are so overwhelmed by their strong feelings and so ashamed of the chaos they create--or so unable to read social cues, that it is a real challenge to develop or exhibit empathy....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 434004, member: 2322"] My son in his program had a fairly scripted communication statements he had to practice. something along the lines of " I hear that you are angry. You are angry because I kicked you. It makes you angry when I kick you because it hurts you. My hope for me is that I can learn not to kick you. My hope for you is that you will help me...." Something like that. The point being part of empathy is learning to identify what others are feeling and what gives rise to those feelings. I think you might want to have some kind of script that each person can follow so that the exercise doesn't degenerate into more name-calling. Perhaps you might want to have a happy jar too. "It made be feel really good when you helped me do the dishes tonight...... " good luck! I suppose that there are some people who will never have empathy, but maybe many of our kids are so overwhelmed by their strong feelings and so ashamed of the chaos they create--or so unable to read social cues, that it is a real challenge to develop or exhibit empathy.... [/QUOTE]
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