Empathy is a quality and a very positive value in human beings since a person who is characterized by being empathetic is a person who helps who feels the pain of others who puts himself in his place when he sees adversities happen to other people and tries to help this is a person who is closely related to altruism companionship love and concern for others is a person full of positive feelings which will be helpful for his stage of adulthood
parents certainly long to have empathetic children and many times we do not know how to handle the situation when the ego is strongly focused on them, which is normal in the infant stage. However for no reason parents should allow this to continue dominating their lives since it is necessary that they can grow in harmony with their environment
Feelings and emotions are very significant in the development of children, but if we do not try to instill them in them, they will never understand what empathy is because it is necessary that they can be taught so that they can have feelings and can understand the feelings of others
Empathy is as important in children's life as feeding one for the physical body and another for the soul because if we feed our children well they will grow up healthy and physically strong but if we also feed their soul we will have strong feelings children and they will never hurt to other people
Do you know why in the world there are so many harmful people who rejoice at the failures of others and even collaborate to do evil? for lack of empathy children who imposed their ego and the parents never did anything to correct them because it seemed to them that it was something normal in childhood and thus they grew up they became adults and their ego has predominated in their lives
This is a detail that we should never let go unnoticed in our children, even if it seems normal to us since in their childhood stage it is very common for them to fight over toys or anything else, because they feel like protagonists for their ego, in your enviroment
In this order of ideas, empathy can be taught as a value and obviously through example and perseverance since when children understand and manage their feelings well they will be able to recognize others
We must be attentive to the behavior of our children so that they can have an adequate behavior on a day-to-day basis and we are the indicated ones to achieve it because, like all things in life, our children need us to be their best example since if we want our children be empathetic we must be them too
There are many ways and tools to teach empathy to our children and as I pointed out our example is the best.
Body language is a way to help them fully understand what empathy is when they begin to interpret gestures and facial expressions so they can develop empathy much faster.
It is important to highlight that in everyday life a person can without speaking to us communicate an impression of sympathy of acceptance of hostility of disdain or indifference by only the movement of his shoulders, his hands, his eyes or his eyebrows since the gestures are animated especially by the affective world of which he speaks and is his best expression to also communicate emotions
For example, encouraging our children to notice the body language of the people who are in their environment with positive words when they act well could be one of the most correct way to develop empathy in them.
Really body language favors empathy since through it gestures are highlighted where the child has the ability to quickly understand his message and perceive them as his own to be able to identify with other people because this helps him to highlight and increase his capacity for empathy
In this sense, it is very important to take into account the presence of some elements of body language that could help us develop empathy.
Between them we have:
Use a suitable and slow tone of voice to reflect security in other people, regularize our language according to others try to motivate the other person with body gestures when we speak through a pat on the shoulder to develop confidence and above all transmit To the other person interest when speaking so that they can feel important and cared for when expressing their opinions as we must remember that children's emotions are very important for their development and we must pay as much attention as possible
Bibliography consulted. educational child stage, utel.edu.
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