Program promotes empathy, needs daily votes for grant money
By Lisa Goudy
Teaching empathy to kids can help turn a bully personality into a protector personality.
That’s what the classroom-based program for kindergarten to Grade 8 students, Roots of Empathy, strives to accomplish.
“It’s to help children recognize the humanity
in each other. The short-term goals of the program are to lower levels
of aggression
in children amongst their peers so anti-bullying,” said Daycee
Richardson, a Roots of Empathy instructor in Moose Jaw.
“But the long-term goals of it are actually to
impact the next generation of parents because there’s so much valuable
information
that they learn along the way about child development.”
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