{"id":1076,"date":"2021-03-01T10:20:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T10:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2021-03-01T10:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T10:24:02","slug":"part1-family-activities-that-instill-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/2021\/03\/01\/part1-family-activities-that-instill-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Part1: Family Activities That Instill&#8230;. Empathy."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/brothersGrieving_small.jpg?resize=1024%2C644\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/brothersGrieving_small.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/brothersGrieving_small.jpg?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/brothersGrieving_small.jpg?resize=768%2C483&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/brothersGrieving_small.jpg?resize=750%2C472&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard of <strong><em>&#8220;Put yourself in someone else&#8217;s shoes.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> Sometimes parents tell me how their child just doesn&#8217;t understand their sibling&#8217;s emotions or feelings and can be so mean to their brother or sister, or how the teen just doesn&#8217;t  understand why their parent is concerned about them when they are out and just need a check-up call, or how a young child wants his own way all the time (very egocentric).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> <em>&#8220;Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another&#8217;s position.&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Empathy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Empathy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sesame Street with the &#8220;Hulk&#8221; (Mark Ruffalo) explains Empathy quite simply (and fun): <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CS7Vh01zNOY\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CS7Vh01zNOY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following are some games or activities (5years-adults) you and the family can play together at the dinning room table or on the carpet after dinner, to help understand and enhance <strong><em>Empathy<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Empathy-Family-Activities.pdf\">Empathy-Family-Activities<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Empathy-Family-Activities.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy the time together and experiencing <em><strong>Empathy<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard of &#8220;Put yourself in someone else&#8217;s shoes.&#8221; Sometimes parents tell me how their child just doesn&#8217;t understand their sibling&#8217;s emotions or feelings and can be so mean to their brother or sister, or how the teen just doesn&#8217;t understand why their parent is concerned about them when they are out and just need [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-article","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wood-people-marco-bianchetti-vzFTmxTl0DQ-unsplash.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wood-people-marco-bianchetti-vzFTmxTl0DQ-unsplash.jpg?resize=600%2C427&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Natacha Latouf","author_link":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/author\/natacha-latouf\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/wood-people-marco-bianchetti-vzFTmxTl0DQ-unsplash.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalparenting.co.za\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}