Do your children enjoy vegetable soup? Vegetable soup can be exciting to make and delicious to eat. This is true, especially for children, if you pair it with a story about growing vegetables or making soup! Making soup together can become a fun family event. Children are more likely to taste what they have helped […]
Preventing Empathetic Overload
As caregivers, first responders, and health providers know well, empathetic burnout is waiting to happen when we directly take on the suffering of others, particularly for long periods of time. With awareness, we can instead bring “rational” empathy into our work and lives. This is where we try to understand what another person is going […]
Use Discipline to Teach Children
Through positive modeling and discipline adults teach children how to become well-adjusted members of society. When children are treated with respect and are able to have some control, they learn to respect and listen to their parents. Spanking continues to be used as a form of discipline because many parents believe spanking will stop misbehavior […]
