Question
What are the six skills for demonstrating empathy to children and why are they beneficial?
Answer
The six skills include giving children your full attention; acknowledge children's feelings with a word; give feelings a name; give children their wishes in fantasy; deliver empathy with a question; and deliver empathy with a limit.
These skills are very important because demonstrating empathy towards children shows respect for their feelings. Empathy helps adults avoid power struggles with children and open up channels of communication. Additionally, empathy invites children to come up with their own solution to problems they encounter.
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Adina Soclof, a certified Speech-Language Pathologist, provided services in preschools for the developmentally disabled in the New York area before staying home full time with her family. She reentered the workforce as a Parent Educator for Bellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau, facilitating "How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk" workshops as well as workshops based on "Siblings Without Rivalry" and "Raising a Spirited Child". She has been featured at numerous non-profit organizations and private schools in Cleveland. Adina developed TEAM Communication Ventures and conducts parenting, teacher and clinician workshops via telephone nationwide.
Adina Soclof, M.S.,CCC-SLP
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