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Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the deepest satisfaction…

— Sue Gerhardt

“For children to know and regulate their emotions, and be socially connected, they need to experience this kind of interaction many hundreds of times…

— Norman Doidge

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and…

— Donna Tartt

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

— Hector Hugh Munro

“Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they…

— Rahima Baldwin Dancy

“the behaviors and skills we want and expect our kids to demonstrate, like sound decision making, control of their emotions and bodies, empathy, self-understanding,…

— Daniel J. Siegel

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

— Bill Drayton

If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the root of…

— Carolyn Hax

“When children are hurt and in pain psychologically, they don't want to be in distress, so when the situation becomes intolerable, they cease to…

— Robert W. Firestone

I think children are really violent with each other often.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

“What happens when children observe domestic violence, warfare, a gang murder, a school massacre? For weeks afterward there is impaired concentration and impulse control.…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Kids get influenced by other kids.

— Paul Pierce