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Martin, who teaches the arts program at the school, says she was inspired by her students' positive attitudes, despite all they've been through — the pandemic, wildfires in the region and just the everyday challenges of being a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought, you know, with this world being as it is, we all really needed to hear from them — their extraordinary advice and their continual joy,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-59168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc4-64a6daa84383ba35c09d938934c1fd4cdaa3becc-scaled-e1646641980623.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">August Pochan, a West Side Elementary 1st grader, hangs a poster with encouraging words on a phone pole for the Peptoc project. \u003ccite>(Jessica Martin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martin said she spoke with her class about the idea of art as a kind of social practice, a conversation to contribute to the world — and something we can all learn from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their creativity and resourcefulness is something that we need to emulate, because that level of joy and love and imagination is what's going to save us in the end,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin says she hopes the hotline will give callers a little respite from whatever it is they're going through, which — judging from the thousands of calls the hotline gets each day — is quite a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after launching the hotline on Feb. 26, she said they were up to 700 callers per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1924px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-59166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An array of inspirational posters\" width=\"1924\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-scaled.jpg 1924w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-800x1064.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-1020x1357.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-768x1022.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-1155x1536.jpg 1155w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-1539x2048.jpg 1539w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-1920x2554.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1924px) 100vw, 1924px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installation of the inspirational posters at a youth art exhibit at Healdsburg Center for the Arts in California. \u003ccite>(Jessica Martin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That this went viral is really testament that we all still have a lot of healing to do,\" she said. \"And you know, with the current situation in Ukraine and all of the other terrors and sadness that we all carry, it's really important that we continue to hold this light.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's also a testament to fostering the arts in schools, noting that West Side doesn't have much of an arts program after a massive budget cut this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the next time you need a little boost, dial Peptoc at 707-998-8410.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help support the program's hotline fees, you can \u003ca href=\"http://www.westsideusd.org/\">click here to donate\u003c/a>. Martin said that any surplus funds will go toward the school's enrichment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hiba Ahmad and Hadeel Al-Shalchi produced and edited this story for broadcast. Emma Bowman produced the story for the web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Press+3+for+a+pep+talk+from+kindergartners.+A+new+hotline+gives+you+options+for+joy&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What started as an art project at a California elementary school has gone viral. 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If you need words of encouragement and life advice, press 2. If you need a pep talk from kindergartners, press 3. If you need to hear kids laughing with delight, press 4. For encouragement in Spanish, press 5.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressing 3 leads to a chorus of kids sounding off a series of uplifting mantras:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Be grateful for yourself,\" offers one student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're feeling up high and unbalanced, think of groundhogs,\" another chimes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bro, you're looking great.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peptoc, as the free hotline is called, is a project from the students of West Side Elementary, a small school in the town of Healdsburg, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was put together with the help of teachers Jessica Martin and Asherah Weiss. Martin, who teaches the arts program at the school, says she was inspired by her students' positive attitudes, despite all they've been through — the pandemic, wildfires in the region and just the everyday challenges of being a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought, you know, with this world being as it is, we all really needed to hear from them — their extraordinary advice and their continual joy,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-59168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc4-64a6daa84383ba35c09d938934c1fd4cdaa3becc-scaled-e1646641980623.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">August Pochan, a West Side Elementary 1st grader, hangs a poster with encouraging words on a phone pole for the Peptoc project. \u003ccite>(Jessica Martin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martin said she spoke with her class about the idea of art as a kind of social practice, a conversation to contribute to the world — and something we can all learn from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their creativity and resourcefulness is something that we need to emulate, because that level of joy and love and imagination is what's going to save us in the end,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin says she hopes the hotline will give callers a little respite from whatever it is they're going through, which — judging from the thousands of calls the hotline gets each day — is quite a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after launching the hotline on Feb. 26, she said they were up to 700 callers per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1924px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-59166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An array of inspirational posters\" width=\"1924\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-scaled.jpg 1924w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-800x1064.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-1020x1357.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-768x1022.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-1155x1536.jpg 1155w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-1539x2048.jpg 1539w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/03/peptoc3_custom-4b2cc887f590b78676dedf235bcf769b0cdcd896-1920x2554.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1924px) 100vw, 1924px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installation of the inspirational posters at a youth art exhibit at Healdsburg Center for the Arts in California. \u003ccite>(Jessica Martin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That this went viral is really testament that we all still have a lot of healing to do,\" she said. \"And you know, with the current situation in Ukraine and all of the other terrors and sadness that we all carry, it's really important that we continue to hold this light.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's also a testament to fostering the arts in schools, noting that West Side doesn't have much of an arts program after a massive budget cut this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the next time you need a little boost, dial Peptoc at 707-998-8410.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help support the program's hotline fees, you can \u003ca href=\"http://www.westsideusd.org/\">click here to donate\u003c/a>. Martin said that any surplus funds will go toward the school's enrichment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hiba Ahmad and Hadeel Al-Shalchi produced and edited this story for broadcast. Emma Bowman produced the story for the web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Press+3+for+a+pep+talk+from+kindergartners.+A+new+hotline+gives+you+options+for+joy&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/59165/need-a-pep-talk-from-kindergartners-a-new-hotline-gives-you-options-for-joy","authors":["byline_mindshift_59165"],"categories":["mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_21324","mindshift_790","mindshift_21106","mindshift_20865"],"featImg":"mindshift_59167","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_57191":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_57191","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"57191","score":null,"sort":[1609568644000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"7-books-to-help-address-and-discuss-tough-topics-with-kids","title":"7 Books To Help Address and Discuss Tough Topics With Kids","publishDate":1609568644,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>2020 was — to borrow a phrase from a popular kid's book —\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/900225212/alexander-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day\"> a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad\u003c/a> year. And for parents, one of the year's hardest jobs was trying to explain current events to young kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are living in challenging times,\" says children's book author Matt de la Peña — and kids are taking a lot of it in. \"While you and I read the news, watch the news, listen to the news — our young children are watching and reading \u003cem>us, \u003c/em>and so they're not getting the whole picture,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Peña believes books can explore deep or difficult issues without hitting them head-on. \"I don't think the job of a picture book is to answer questions,\" he says. \"I think it's just to explore interesting topics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Books should begin conversations, he explains: \"Sometimes those are silly conversations, sometimes they're educational conversations and sometimes, like now, they can be quite profound.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Peña's latest book,\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549617/milo-imagines-the-world-by-matt-de-la-pena-illus-by-christian-robinson/\">\u003cem> Milo Imagines the World,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> illustrated by Christian Robinson, is out in February. He offers several suggestions for books that can help young kids think about tough subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.candlewick.com/cat.asp?mode=book&isbn=0763675423&browse=Author\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57193\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/lobsters_custom-c4e92ca42c48c25107e3f9863677ff91aa0745da.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/lobsters_custom-c4e92ca42c48c25107e3f9863677ff91aa0745da.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/lobsters_custom-c4e92ca42c48c25107e3f9863677ff91aa0745da-160x174.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Experiencing Anxiety: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.candlewick.com/cat.asp?mode=book&isbn=0763675423&browse=Author\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>There Might Be Lobsters\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Carolyn Crimi, illustrated by Laurel Molk (for ages 3 to 7)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>There Might Be Lobsters\u003c/em> tells the story of Suki, a dog who is scared of the beach. The waves, the sand, the possible lobsters — it's a lot for a little dog to worry about, and de la Peña says that kids living through these times will get that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think so many kids right now can't really identify why they're anxious,\" de la Peña says. \"But there's this feeling, there's this darkness inside of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While adults may try to examine and understand their anxiety, de la Peña says, \"kids are experiencing it viscerally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor, Sukie's human, does her best to ease her dog's fears. But it's only when Sukie's stuffed toy, Chunka Munka, gets taken by a wave that the little dog finds the courage to get into the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I love about this book is we see a dog who is pushed out of her comfort zone,\" de la Peña says. \"It's great to read today with kids because so many of us are forced out of our comfort zones.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book touches on difficult themes — fear, anxiety, lack of control — but in a manageable way. \"You can have a young reader who doesn't really consciously put their finger on the anxiety that's being explored — they just like the lobster story,\" says de la Peña. \"But viscerally, I'm sure they're getting something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552119/the-rabbit-listened-by-cori-doerrfeld/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/rabbitlistened_custom-fc0f8207adcf7076c04cf63ba25faf89dcb87e5f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/rabbitlistened_custom-fc0f8207adcf7076c04cf63ba25faf89dcb87e5f.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/rabbitlistened_custom-fc0f8207adcf7076c04cf63ba25faf89dcb87e5f-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Who Is Upset: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552119/the-rabbit-listened-by-cori-doerrfeld/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Rabbit Listened\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Cori Doerrfeld (for ages 3 to 5)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even adults have trouble knowing how best to support someone who is experiencing a loss. This is a story that reminds kids — and their grown-ups — that sometimes the best thing to do is to just be present and bear witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor is so disappointed when his amazing block tower comes tumbling down. Several animal friends stop by to help: The chicken wants to talk about it; the hyena wants to laugh about it; the elephant wants to rebuild it; the ostrich wants to hide from it. But none of that helps Taylor feel better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, \"rabbit comes in quietly and just sits with Taylor, allowing the child to process the small tragedy organically,\" de la Peña says. He says this picture book offers helpful guidance in \"how to best support a young person who is upset.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lbyr.com/titles/dan-santat/the-adventures-of-beekle-the-unimaginary-friend/9780316199988/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57195\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/beekle_custom-bd4743bb8ddffe6d5a3adea75fed3359f89d0a80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/beekle_custom-bd4743bb8ddffe6d5a3adea75fed3359f89d0a80.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/beekle_custom-bd4743bb8ddffe6d5a3adea75fed3359f89d0a80-160x205.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Searching For Their Place In The World:\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lbyr.com/titles/dan-santat/the-adventures-of-beekle-the-unimaginary-friend/9780316199988/\"> \u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Adventures of Beekle\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>by Dan Santat (for ages 4 to 8)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An imaginary friend is born on an imaginary island — all he has to do is wait to be chosen by a real child. But after nights and nights of waiting he decides he must fight for his own fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He takes matters into his own hands and builds a ship and sails into the real world on his own,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long journey he finds himself in a busy city where at last he meets a little girl who \"felt just right.\" She names him Beekle, and they take off on \"unimaginable\" adventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love the way this book explores the psychology of how a child can marry the dreamy world of childhood imagination with the real world and human friendships,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/17915\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/mapintotheworld_custom-b40a2470f4a1ff2636a68615fb837e31aaaf42b9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/mapintotheworld_custom-b40a2470f4a1ff2636a68615fb837e31aaaf42b9.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/mapintotheworld_custom-b40a2470f4a1ff2636a68615fb837e31aaaf42b9-160x190.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Thinking About Death: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/17915\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A Map into the World\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Kao Kalia Yang, illustrated by Seo Kim (for ages 5 to 9)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many children have lost a neighbor, a friend or a family member to COVID-19. De la Peña says Kao Kalia Yang's \u003cem>A Map into the World \u003c/em>is a good way to broach this painful subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the story of a young girl who moves in across the street from an elderly couple. When the wife dies, the girl \"can't quite access what it means, but it weighs on her and it weighs on the entire street,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she takes her bucket of chalk and draws her grieving neighbor \"a map into the world\" on the sidewalk. \"This is a girl trying to process things she doesn't fully comprehend ... but she has this visceral instinct to go and \u003cem>do\u003c/em> something,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grief and loss feel heavy, but they can be hard for kids to conceptualize — especially now. \"We can't \u003cem>see \u003c/em>the person who's sick in the hospital ... we can't go to funerals,\" de la Peña says. \"So it's just information that you're downloading and you don't know how to process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A book like this, he says, can help bridge that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/299101/each-kindness-by-jacqueline-woodson-illustrated-by-e-b-lewis/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/eachkindness_custom-e7e547f2dc2dd4b0d346da15fadfdad5dd0d4fbb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/eachkindness_custom-e7e547f2dc2dd4b0d346da15fadfdad5dd0d4fbb.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/eachkindness_custom-e7e547f2dc2dd4b0d346da15fadfdad5dd0d4fbb-160x207.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Struggling To Be Kind: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/299101/each-kindness-by-jacqueline-woodson-illustrated-by-e-b-lewis/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Each Kindness\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis (for ages 5 to 8)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of de la Peña's \"all-time favorite\" picture books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya, a new girl at school, wears ragged clothes and has trouble making friends. Chloe won't even return her smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By the time Chloe learns a lesson about the power of kindness, she's missed her chance to be kind to Maya who has moved away,\" de la Peña explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missed opportunity and regret aren't common themes in children's literature. \"I so admire this book for resisting the happy ending and allowing Chloe's story to end on regret,\" de la Peña says. \"It's a powerful experience for young readers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599538/when-stars-are-scattered-by-victoria-jamieson-and-omar-mohamed-illustrated-by-victoria-jamieson-color-by-iman-geddy/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57198\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/whenstarsarescattered_custom-aa1d34e17b8906415048d5b4f0d95dac9b8d79f3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/whenstarsarescattered_custom-aa1d34e17b8906415048d5b4f0d95dac9b8d79f3.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/whenstarsarescattered_custom-aa1d34e17b8906415048d5b4f0d95dac9b8d79f3-160x237.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Feeling Stuck: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599538/when-stars-are-scattered-by-victoria-jamieson-and-omar-mohamed-illustrated-by-victoria-jamieson-color-by-iman-geddy/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>When Stars Are Scattered\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, illustrated by Victoria Jamieson and\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Iman Geddy (for ages 9 to 12)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many kids may feel stuck at home — away from friends, relatives and school — during lockdown. So de la Peña suggests a graphic novel that tells the true story of Omar Mohamed, a Somai refugee who grew up in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a line in this book that kind of hits today's climate head on,\" de la Peña says, when Mohamed talks about just waiting for his life to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like so many of us are feeling the same way and so are our children,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graphic novels and picture books can be a great way to explore tough subjects with kids who aren't comfortable reading yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes we can have visual learning happening alongside textual learning ...\" de la Peña says. \"We can read the faces of the characters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents should remember that there are many different ways for a child to read. \"I think it's important not to put too much pressure on children to read at our pace, but to read at their own pace,\" de la Peña says. \"That's what I love about picture books. You can enter the story via text or via illustration and ultimately, you know, kids are going to get to both.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557383/love-by-matt-de-la-pena-illustrated-by-loren-long/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/love_custom-bc0b2caacd8e44e045341f3a3c8bec9a884ed59e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/love_custom-bc0b2caacd8e44e045341f3a3c8bec9a884ed59e.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/love_custom-bc0b2caacd8e44e045341f3a3c8bec9a884ed59e-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>Acknowledging When Life Is Scary\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Peña's 2018 book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/15/578172727/new-picture-book-illustrates-how-love-is-always-around\">\u003cem>Love,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> illustrated by Loren Long, grapples with difficult subjects, too — in one illustration a child hides under a piano while his parents have an argument. In another, a child walks in as his family is taking in upsetting news on the television. De la Peña couches these fearful moments in the context of love and protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted a story that I could read to my daughter before bed that would make her feel good, considering that the news wasn't always so positive,\" de la Peña says. He says there are great books that are purely positive and reassuring, but he found that this sort of book didn't feel true to his experience as a parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had to at least acknowledge adversity because every child is going to be confronted with adversities throughout their life,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parents who are worried about shepherding their small people through difficult times, perhaps it will be helpful to remember that even award-winning children's book authors feel daunted by this responsibility: \"I'm afraid of those moments as a parent, too,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gabe O'Connor and Jan Johnson produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Struggling+To+Discuss+Tough+Topics+With+A+Kid%3F+Here+Are+Books+That+Might+Help&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If you feel daunted by the responsibility of shepherding a child through difficult times, don't feel alone: \"I'm afraid of those moments as a parent, too,\" says picture book author Matt de la Peña.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1609828666,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":47,"wordCount":1652},"headData":{"title":"7 Books To Help Address and Discuss Tough Topics With Kids - MindShift","description":"If you feel daunted by the responsibility of shepherding a child through difficult times, don't feel alone: "I'm afraid of those moments as a parent, too," says picture book author Matt de la Peña.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"7 Books To Help Address and Discuss Tough Topics With Kids","datePublished":"2021-01-02T06:24:04.000Z","dateModified":"2021-01-05T06:37:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"57191 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=57191","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2021/01/01/7-books-to-help-address-and-discuss-tough-topics-with-kids/","disqusTitle":"7 Books To Help Address and Discuss Tough Topics With Kids","nprByline":"Audie Cornish","nprImageAgency":"G.P. 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And for parents, one of the year's hardest jobs was trying to explain current events to young kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are living in challenging times,\" says children's book author Matt de la Peña — and kids are taking a lot of it in. \"While you and I read the news, watch the news, listen to the news — our young children are watching and reading \u003cem>us, \u003c/em>and so they're not getting the whole picture,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Peña believes books can explore deep or difficult issues without hitting them head-on. \"I don't think the job of a picture book is to answer questions,\" he says. \"I think it's just to explore interesting topics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Books should begin conversations, he explains: \"Sometimes those are silly conversations, sometimes they're educational conversations and sometimes, like now, they can be quite profound.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Peña's latest book,\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549617/milo-imagines-the-world-by-matt-de-la-pena-illus-by-christian-robinson/\">\u003cem> Milo Imagines the World,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> illustrated by Christian Robinson, is out in February. He offers several suggestions for books that can help young kids think about tough subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.candlewick.com/cat.asp?mode=book&isbn=0763675423&browse=Author\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57193\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/lobsters_custom-c4e92ca42c48c25107e3f9863677ff91aa0745da.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/lobsters_custom-c4e92ca42c48c25107e3f9863677ff91aa0745da.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/lobsters_custom-c4e92ca42c48c25107e3f9863677ff91aa0745da-160x174.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Experiencing Anxiety: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.candlewick.com/cat.asp?mode=book&isbn=0763675423&browse=Author\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>There Might Be Lobsters\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Carolyn Crimi, illustrated by Laurel Molk (for ages 3 to 7)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>There Might Be Lobsters\u003c/em> tells the story of Suki, a dog who is scared of the beach. The waves, the sand, the possible lobsters — it's a lot for a little dog to worry about, and de la Peña says that kids living through these times will get that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think so many kids right now can't really identify why they're anxious,\" de la Peña says. \"But there's this feeling, there's this darkness inside of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While adults may try to examine and understand their anxiety, de la Peña says, \"kids are experiencing it viscerally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor, Sukie's human, does her best to ease her dog's fears. But it's only when Sukie's stuffed toy, Chunka Munka, gets taken by a wave that the little dog finds the courage to get into the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I love about this book is we see a dog who is pushed out of her comfort zone,\" de la Peña says. \"It's great to read today with kids because so many of us are forced out of our comfort zones.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book touches on difficult themes — fear, anxiety, lack of control — but in a manageable way. \"You can have a young reader who doesn't really consciously put their finger on the anxiety that's being explored — they just like the lobster story,\" says de la Peña. \"But viscerally, I'm sure they're getting something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552119/the-rabbit-listened-by-cori-doerrfeld/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/rabbitlistened_custom-fc0f8207adcf7076c04cf63ba25faf89dcb87e5f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/rabbitlistened_custom-fc0f8207adcf7076c04cf63ba25faf89dcb87e5f.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/rabbitlistened_custom-fc0f8207adcf7076c04cf63ba25faf89dcb87e5f-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Who Is Upset: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552119/the-rabbit-listened-by-cori-doerrfeld/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Rabbit Listened\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Cori Doerrfeld (for ages 3 to 5)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even adults have trouble knowing how best to support someone who is experiencing a loss. This is a story that reminds kids — and their grown-ups — that sometimes the best thing to do is to just be present and bear witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor is so disappointed when his amazing block tower comes tumbling down. Several animal friends stop by to help: The chicken wants to talk about it; the hyena wants to laugh about it; the elephant wants to rebuild it; the ostrich wants to hide from it. But none of that helps Taylor feel better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, \"rabbit comes in quietly and just sits with Taylor, allowing the child to process the small tragedy organically,\" de la Peña says. He says this picture book offers helpful guidance in \"how to best support a young person who is upset.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lbyr.com/titles/dan-santat/the-adventures-of-beekle-the-unimaginary-friend/9780316199988/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57195\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/beekle_custom-bd4743bb8ddffe6d5a3adea75fed3359f89d0a80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/beekle_custom-bd4743bb8ddffe6d5a3adea75fed3359f89d0a80.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/beekle_custom-bd4743bb8ddffe6d5a3adea75fed3359f89d0a80-160x205.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Searching For Their Place In The World:\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lbyr.com/titles/dan-santat/the-adventures-of-beekle-the-unimaginary-friend/9780316199988/\"> \u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Adventures of Beekle\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>by Dan Santat (for ages 4 to 8)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An imaginary friend is born on an imaginary island — all he has to do is wait to be chosen by a real child. But after nights and nights of waiting he decides he must fight for his own fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He takes matters into his own hands and builds a ship and sails into the real world on his own,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long journey he finds himself in a busy city where at last he meets a little girl who \"felt just right.\" She names him Beekle, and they take off on \"unimaginable\" adventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love the way this book explores the psychology of how a child can marry the dreamy world of childhood imagination with the real world and human friendships,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/17915\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57196\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/mapintotheworld_custom-b40a2470f4a1ff2636a68615fb837e31aaaf42b9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/mapintotheworld_custom-b40a2470f4a1ff2636a68615fb837e31aaaf42b9.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/mapintotheworld_custom-b40a2470f4a1ff2636a68615fb837e31aaaf42b9-160x190.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Thinking About Death: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/17915\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A Map into the World\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Kao Kalia Yang, illustrated by Seo Kim (for ages 5 to 9)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many children have lost a neighbor, a friend or a family member to COVID-19. De la Peña says Kao Kalia Yang's \u003cem>A Map into the World \u003c/em>is a good way to broach this painful subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the story of a young girl who moves in across the street from an elderly couple. When the wife dies, the girl \"can't quite access what it means, but it weighs on her and it weighs on the entire street,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she takes her bucket of chalk and draws her grieving neighbor \"a map into the world\" on the sidewalk. \"This is a girl trying to process things she doesn't fully comprehend ... but she has this visceral instinct to go and \u003cem>do\u003c/em> something,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grief and loss feel heavy, but they can be hard for kids to conceptualize — especially now. \"We can't \u003cem>see \u003c/em>the person who's sick in the hospital ... we can't go to funerals,\" de la Peña says. \"So it's just information that you're downloading and you don't know how to process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A book like this, he says, can help bridge that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/299101/each-kindness-by-jacqueline-woodson-illustrated-by-e-b-lewis/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57197\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/eachkindness_custom-e7e547f2dc2dd4b0d346da15fadfdad5dd0d4fbb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/eachkindness_custom-e7e547f2dc2dd4b0d346da15fadfdad5dd0d4fbb.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/eachkindness_custom-e7e547f2dc2dd4b0d346da15fadfdad5dd0d4fbb-160x207.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Struggling To Be Kind: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/299101/each-kindness-by-jacqueline-woodson-illustrated-by-e-b-lewis/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Each Kindness\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E.B. Lewis (for ages 5 to 8)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of de la Peña's \"all-time favorite\" picture books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya, a new girl at school, wears ragged clothes and has trouble making friends. Chloe won't even return her smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By the time Chloe learns a lesson about the power of kindness, she's missed her chance to be kind to Maya who has moved away,\" de la Peña explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missed opportunity and regret aren't common themes in children's literature. \"I so admire this book for resisting the happy ending and allowing Chloe's story to end on regret,\" de la Peña says. \"It's a powerful experience for young readers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599538/when-stars-are-scattered-by-victoria-jamieson-and-omar-mohamed-illustrated-by-victoria-jamieson-color-by-iman-geddy/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57198\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/whenstarsarescattered_custom-aa1d34e17b8906415048d5b4f0d95dac9b8d79f3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/whenstarsarescattered_custom-aa1d34e17b8906415048d5b4f0d95dac9b8d79f3.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/whenstarsarescattered_custom-aa1d34e17b8906415048d5b4f0d95dac9b8d79f3-160x237.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>For A Child Feeling Stuck: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599538/when-stars-are-scattered-by-victoria-jamieson-and-omar-mohamed-illustrated-by-victoria-jamieson-color-by-iman-geddy/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>When Stars Are Scattered\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, illustrated by Victoria Jamieson and\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Iman Geddy (for ages 9 to 12)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many kids may feel stuck at home — away from friends, relatives and school — during lockdown. So de la Peña suggests a graphic novel that tells the true story of Omar Mohamed, a Somai refugee who grew up in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a line in this book that kind of hits today's climate head on,\" de la Peña says, when Mohamed talks about just waiting for his life to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel like so many of us are feeling the same way and so are our children,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graphic novels and picture books can be a great way to explore tough subjects with kids who aren't comfortable reading yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes we can have visual learning happening alongside textual learning ...\" de la Peña says. \"We can read the faces of the characters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents should remember that there are many different ways for a child to read. \"I think it's important not to put too much pressure on children to read at our pace, but to read at their own pace,\" de la Peña says. \"That's what I love about picture books. You can enter the story via text or via illustration and ultimately, you know, kids are going to get to both.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557383/love-by-matt-de-la-pena-illustrated-by-loren-long/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57199\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/love_custom-bc0b2caacd8e44e045341f3a3c8bec9a884ed59e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/love_custom-bc0b2caacd8e44e045341f3a3c8bec9a884ed59e.jpg 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2020/12/love_custom-bc0b2caacd8e44e045341f3a3c8bec9a884ed59e-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>Acknowledging When Life Is Scary\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De la Peña's 2018 book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/15/578172727/new-picture-book-illustrates-how-love-is-always-around\">\u003cem>Love,\u003c/em>\u003c/a> illustrated by Loren Long, grapples with difficult subjects, too — in one illustration a child hides under a piano while his parents have an argument. In another, a child walks in as his family is taking in upsetting news on the television. De la Peña couches these fearful moments in the context of love and protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted a story that I could read to my daughter before bed that would make her feel good, considering that the news wasn't always so positive,\" de la Peña says. He says there are great books that are purely positive and reassuring, but he found that this sort of book didn't feel true to his experience as a parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had to at least acknowledge adversity because every child is going to be confronted with adversities throughout their life,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parents who are worried about shepherding their small people through difficult times, perhaps it will be helpful to remember that even award-winning children's book authors feel daunted by this responsibility: \"I'm afraid of those moments as a parent, too,\" de la Peña says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gabe O'Connor and Jan Johnson produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Struggling+To+Discuss+Tough+Topics+With+A+Kid%3F+Here+Are+Books+That+Might+Help&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/57191/7-books-to-help-address-and-discuss-tough-topics-with-kids","authors":["byline_mindshift_57191"],"categories":["mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_20589","mindshift_21106","mindshift_20865","mindshift_943"],"featImg":"mindshift_57192","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_55771":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_55771","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"55771","score":null,"sort":[1587546142000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"10-comfort-games-that-encourage-kindness-community-and-well-being","title":"10 Comfort Games That Encourage Kindness, Community and Well-Being","publishDate":1587546142,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the world’s first history book, Herodotus recounts how the ancient Lydians faced a prolonged period of food scarcity. Months passed without relief and despair set in, spurring the desperate Lydians to implement an unusual solution. Life was organized according to a two-day schedule, where they fasted on the first day and played games to distract from hunger, while on the second day they ate and abstained from play. Herodotus writes that the people lived according to this pattern for eighteen years, survived the famine, and invented some of the games that we enjoy today.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three thousand years later, we stand to learn much from the Lydians. Games might be a timely balm as we grapple with our own social crisis. French philosopher David Émile Durkeim believed that games are a cornerstone of human bonding, while their power to absorb and distract helps ease our thoughts from the troubles at hand. Also, digital games can simulate vast navigable virtual spaces, an attractive commodity when access to real world space is restricted. But, unlike the Lydians, we already have tens of thousands of games ready to go, many of which have been designed to dissolve physical distance.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we adjust to a prolonged sojourn in the great indoors, the games included here may help ease the burden of confinement. Players can draw comfort from bridging distance through online collaboration, traveling the virtual world, sharing struggles, or getting a daily fitness fix, all without having to step outside.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Kind Words\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://popcannibal.com/kindwords/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kind Words\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’ core mechanic is meaningful human contact. Players can anonymously write short letters to share their struggles or respond to others with supportive words. After the tutorial, all letters and responses are produced by real people. This little game with a big heart seems ideally suited to our current circumstances as it transcends space with its anonymous virtual network that encourages positive interactions, mutual comfort and support. It’s also a fun way for kids to exercise reading, writing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54853/why-its-imperative-we-all-learn-to-be-emotion-scientists\">emotional intelligence\u003c/a> through empathetic engagements. Not surprisingly, many recent letters address social distancing issues which grant ample opportunity to connect on the foundation of shared experience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnJ2sRTkZo8\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Journey\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doesn’t it feel like a good time for a mystical pilgrimage across the desert? \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://thatgamecompany.com/journey/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journey\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a striking work of video game art where a player traverses a surreal desert landscape as they make their way to a distant mountain. The soothing soundtrack, austere expanses and calming rhythm of play are a powerful antidote to the doldrums of social isolation. The best part is that you are not alone. At every level, one might encounter another anonymous player with whom they can exchange magic scarves and form a temporary alliance. Communication is limited to avatar motion and nonverbal chimes or “pings.” Strangely, these \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-08-how-journey-only-truly-made-sense-when-almost-everything-had-been-cut\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">constraints deepen the emotional connection\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> between players as it impedes potentially toxic behavior. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journey\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a powerful metaphor that binds inward and outward voyages, but perhaps the most relevant message it delivers is its persistent reminder that less is more.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkL94nKSd2M\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Stardew Valley \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pastoral life calls in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stardewvalley.net/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stardew Valley\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where you’re an urban office worker who inherits an abandoned plot of land from your grandfather. Fed-up with the city grind, you decide to take the plunge and start a new life in Pelican Town, an idyllic 16-bit farming community. Soon, you’re clearing land, managing crops, monitoring your sleep cycles, visiting the general store, socializing with the townsfolk and exploring the surrounding countryside. The surprise hit of 2016 is a refreshing tend-and-befriend game with throwback graphics and diverse tasks that will keep you blissfully occupied for hours. You can also farm with friends: there’s a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gamesradar.com/stardew-valley-co-op-multiplayer-how-to/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">multiplayer co-op\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> version that lets up to four players work together, share an income and even tie the knot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot7uXNQskhs\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Animal Crossing: New Horizon\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fresh off the press, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/animal-crossing-new-horizons-switch/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Animal Crossing: New Horizons\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is the latest installment of the enduring life simulation franchise where players explore a cartoony paradiscal island and build a thriving community of cutesy animal citizens. The open-ended sim is a highly customizable sandbox where players build, collect, craft, grow, fish, trade, play and socialize. Time on the island is tied to the real world clock, the weather is in flux and the flora and fauna change according to the seasons. Four can collaborate on the same system and up to eight online players can meet to work and play on the island.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3YNL0OWio0\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>GeoGuessr\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While we await regularly scheduled flights to resume, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.geoguessr.com/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">GeoGuessr\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> lets us explore the world from the comfort of home. It leverages Google Maps and Street View technology to drop you somewhere on the globe to wander around searching for clues to determine your location. Street signs, landscapes, flora, fauna, company logos, store signs and architecture all provide clues to help you figure out whether you’ve been beamed to the heart of Mongolia or deposited in downtown Nairobi. There are diverse challenges available and those who aren’t ready to go global can choose to materialize at landmarks, specific countries, or U.S. capitals. Once you’ve satisfied your wanderlust, hand it over to the kids for an entertaining boost to their geographic knowledge and critical thinking skills.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The Outer Wilds\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After you’ve exhausted your virtual tour of the world, you might consider heading off planet to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mobiusdigitalgames.com/outer-wilds.html\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outer Wilds\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The recent winner of BAFTA’s Best Game of 2020 award is sci-fi on the surface, but \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outer Wilds\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a gentle, carefully crafted masterpiece that rewards careful exploration. This time, you’re a rookie alien astronaut caught in a 22-minute time loop that always ends with a massive supernova, blackout and you wake up at the campfire starting position again. Rinse, but not quite repeat, as every churn of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Groundhog Day\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> cycle reveals a new piece of the puzzle as you learn why you are trapped in the loop. It is ultimately a story about community and connection that caused \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/13/21011871/outer-wilds-goty-best-games-of-the-year\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">one reviewer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to confess that \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Outer Wilds\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">final revelations left a mark that will be on my soul...one that pulls at me every time I hear its simple, enthralling theme music.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6LGnVCL1_A\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Dungeons & Dragons\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In case you didn’t notice, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dungeons & Dragons\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is back and bigger than ever. The iconic sword and sorcery tabletop role-playing game (RPG) with the eccentric dice has enjoyed a massive resurgence as an embodied alternative to online socialization. Besides its mainstream popularity, educators, therapists and parents have leveraged \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">D&D\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to encourage \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51787/leveraging-the-lore-of-dungeons-and-dragons-to-motivate-students-to-read-and-write\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">literacy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51790/how-dungeons-dragons-primes-students-for-interdisciplinary-learning-including-stem\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">STEM\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51784/how-dungeons-dragons-can-help-kids-develop-social-emotional-learning-skills\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">social and emotional wellbeing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The pen-and-paper game was designed to be played around a table; however, it takes more than a lockdown to subdue. Wizards of the Coast curates a wealth of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/remote\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">free tools and resources\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to help transition your \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">D&D\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> campaign online, and Polygon offers \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/17/21182538/how-to-play-dungeons-dragons-pen-and-paper-games-online-virtual-tabletop-coronavirus\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a guide\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to help make the shift with other RPGs. Roleplay is cathartic, and tabletop RPGs are ultimately collaborative storytelling experiences, a fundamental human impulse to strengthen social cohesion.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/2PEt5RdNHNw\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Minecraft\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minecraft\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is in a category all its own, and a mainstay of every video game list ever. It’s the second best selling title of all time, the commercial video game most widely used \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://education.minecraft.net/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in education\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and it remains enormously popular with players of all ages. Blockish avatars explore, mine and build structures ranging from simple homes to sophisticated circuits. Geographically distanced friends can collaborate on projects, and it’s even possible \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/virtual-computers-built-inside-minecraft-2015-2\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">to build a computer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://blog.connectedcamps.com/creative-minecraft-theater/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stage a live performance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the virtual world. For tens of millions of youth (and adults) around the world, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minecraft\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a safe and familiar place to converse, compete, collaborate and, best of all, create.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Ring Fit Adventure and Just Dance\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, physical exercise is a cornerstone of wellbeing, and games can help with that too. There is no end to online fitness videos but, let’s face it, sometimes the motivation just isn’t there. Some may be more willing to build up a sweat if they have to battle monsters and clear obstacles in a dungeon. Nintendo’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/ring-fit-adventure-switch/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ring Fit Adventure\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the spiritual successor to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Sports\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wii Sports\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, uses motion sensors, a plastic ring peripheral and an RPG narrative to incentivize a workout. It also includes more traditional guided exercise routines. If you prefer to boogie, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ubisoft.com/en-ca/game/just-dance-2020/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just Dance\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> curates classic and contemporary dance hits and scores players on how well they can execute the guided moves, while co-op mode allows for dance offs and collaborative routines.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClIanDEQSyk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dutch historian John Huizinga believed that games are magic circles whose self-contained rules and protocols separate them apart from the real word. Today, it might be more applicable to think of games as magic networks rather than circles, meaningfully connecting people far and wide through designed experiences, and offering a refuge from our refuge. A wayward Danish prince who was also trapped at home once said, “I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space.” With a little help from modern technology, so can we.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Players of these games can draw comfort from bridging distance through online collaboration, traveling the virtual world, sharing struggles, or getting a daily fitness fix, all without having to step outside.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1587741499,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1587},"headData":{"title":"10 Comfort Games That Encourage Kindness, Community and Well-Being | KQED","description":"Players of these games can draw comfort from bridging distance through online collaboration, traveling the virtual world, sharing struggles, or getting a daily fitness fix, all without having to step outside.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"10 Comfort Games That Encourage Kindness, Community and Well-Being","datePublished":"2020-04-22T09:02:22.000Z","dateModified":"2020-04-24T15:18:19.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"55771 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=55771","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2020/04/22/10-comfort-games-that-encourage-kindness-community-and-well-being/","disqusTitle":"10 Comfort Games That Encourage Kindness, Community and Well-Being","path":"/mindshift/55771/10-comfort-games-that-encourage-kindness-community-and-well-being","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the world’s first history book, Herodotus recounts how the ancient Lydians faced a prolonged period of food scarcity. Months passed without relief and despair set in, spurring the desperate Lydians to implement an unusual solution. Life was organized according to a two-day schedule, where they fasted on the first day and played games to distract from hunger, while on the second day they ate and abstained from play. Herodotus writes that the people lived according to this pattern for eighteen years, survived the famine, and invented some of the games that we enjoy today.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three thousand years later, we stand to learn much from the Lydians. Games might be a timely balm as we grapple with our own social crisis. French philosopher David Émile Durkeim believed that games are a cornerstone of human bonding, while their power to absorb and distract helps ease our thoughts from the troubles at hand. Also, digital games can simulate vast navigable virtual spaces, an attractive commodity when access to real world space is restricted. But, unlike the Lydians, we already have tens of thousands of games ready to go, many of which have been designed to dissolve physical distance.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we adjust to a prolonged sojourn in the great indoors, the games included here may help ease the burden of confinement. Players can draw comfort from bridging distance through online collaboration, traveling the virtual world, sharing struggles, or getting a daily fitness fix, all without having to step outside.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Kind Words\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://popcannibal.com/kindwords/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kind Words\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’ core mechanic is meaningful human contact. Players can anonymously write short letters to share their struggles or respond to others with supportive words. After the tutorial, all letters and responses are produced by real people. This little game with a big heart seems ideally suited to our current circumstances as it transcends space with its anonymous virtual network that encourages positive interactions, mutual comfort and support. It’s also a fun way for kids to exercise reading, writing and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54853/why-its-imperative-we-all-learn-to-be-emotion-scientists\">emotional intelligence\u003c/a> through empathetic engagements. Not surprisingly, many recent letters address social distancing issues which grant ample opportunity to connect on the foundation of shared experience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wnJ2sRTkZo8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wnJ2sRTkZo8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cb>Journey\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doesn’t it feel like a good time for a mystical pilgrimage across the desert? \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://thatgamecompany.com/journey/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journey\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a striking work of video game art where a player traverses a surreal desert landscape as they make their way to a distant mountain. The soothing soundtrack, austere expanses and calming rhythm of play are a powerful antidote to the doldrums of social isolation. The best part is that you are not alone. At every level, one might encounter another anonymous player with whom they can exchange magic scarves and form a temporary alliance. Communication is limited to avatar motion and nonverbal chimes or “pings.” Strangely, these \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-08-how-journey-only-truly-made-sense-when-almost-everything-had-been-cut\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">constraints deepen the emotional connection\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> between players as it impedes potentially toxic behavior. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journey\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a powerful metaphor that binds inward and outward voyages, but perhaps the most relevant message it delivers is its persistent reminder that less is more.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/bkL94nKSd2M'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/bkL94nKSd2M'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cb>Stardew Valley \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pastoral life calls in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stardewvalley.net/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stardew Valley\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where you’re an urban office worker who inherits an abandoned plot of land from your grandfather. Fed-up with the city grind, you decide to take the plunge and start a new life in Pelican Town, an idyllic 16-bit farming community. Soon, you’re clearing land, managing crops, monitoring your sleep cycles, visiting the general store, socializing with the townsfolk and exploring the surrounding countryside. The surprise hit of 2016 is a refreshing tend-and-befriend game with throwback graphics and diverse tasks that will keep you blissfully occupied for hours. You can also farm with friends: there’s a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gamesradar.com/stardew-valley-co-op-multiplayer-how-to/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">multiplayer co-op\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> version that lets up to four players work together, share an income and even tie the knot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ot7uXNQskhs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ot7uXNQskhs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cb>Animal Crossing: New Horizon\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fresh off the press, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/animal-crossing-new-horizons-switch/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>Animal Crossing: New Horizons\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is the latest installment of the enduring life simulation franchise where players explore a cartoony paradiscal island and build a thriving community of cutesy animal citizens. 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Four can collaborate on the same system and up to eight online players can meet to work and play on the island.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_3YNL0OWio0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_3YNL0OWio0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cb>GeoGuessr\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While we await regularly scheduled flights to resume, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.geoguessr.com/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">GeoGuessr\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> lets us explore the world from the comfort of home. It leverages Google Maps and Street View technology to drop you somewhere on the globe to wander around searching for clues to determine your location. Street signs, landscapes, flora, fauna, company logos, store signs and architecture all provide clues to help you figure out whether you’ve been beamed to the heart of Mongolia or deposited in downtown Nairobi. There are diverse challenges available and those who aren’t ready to go global can choose to materialize at landmarks, specific countries, or U.S. capitals. Once you’ve satisfied your wanderlust, hand it over to the kids for an entertaining boost to their geographic knowledge and critical thinking skills.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The Outer Wilds\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After you’ve exhausted your virtual tour of the world, you might consider heading off planet to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mobiusdigitalgames.com/outer-wilds.html\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outer Wilds\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The recent winner of BAFTA’s Best Game of 2020 award is sci-fi on the surface, but \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outer Wilds\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a gentle, carefully crafted masterpiece that rewards careful exploration. This time, you’re a rookie alien astronaut caught in a 22-minute time loop that always ends with a massive supernova, blackout and you wake up at the campfire starting position again. Rinse, but not quite repeat, as every churn of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Groundhog Day\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> cycle reveals a new piece of the puzzle as you learn why you are trapped in the loop. 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The pen-and-paper game was designed to be played around a table; however, it takes more than a lockdown to subdue. Wizards of the Coast curates a wealth of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/remote\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">free tools and resources\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to help transition your \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">D&D\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> campaign online, and Polygon offers \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/17/21182538/how-to-play-dungeons-dragons-pen-and-paper-games-online-virtual-tabletop-coronavirus\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a guide\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to help make the shift with other RPGs. 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A wayward Danish prince who was also trapped at home once said, “I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space.” With a little help from modern technology, so can we.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/55771/10-comfort-games-that-encourage-kindness-community-and-well-being","authors":["11107"],"categories":["mindshift_21345","mindshift_21280"],"tags":["mindshift_21344","mindshift_21343","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_548","mindshift_20655","mindshift_21106","mindshift_20865","mindshift_20661","mindshift_20774","mindshift_943","mindshift_419"],"featImg":"mindshift_55774","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_53917":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_53917","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"53917","score":null,"sort":[1562392796000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kindness-vs-cruelty-helping-kids-hear-the-better-angels-of-their-nature","title":"Kindness Vs. Cruelty: Helping Kids Hear The Better Angels Of Their Nature","publishDate":1562392796,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>This story was adapted from an episode from a Life Kit podcast,\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510344/raising-awesome-kids\">\u003cstrong>Parenting: Raising Awesome Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are humans born kind?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We both assumed, as parents of young children, that kindness is just something our kids would pick up by osmosis, because we love them. It's a common assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We often just expect people to be kind without talking about it,\" says Jennifer Kotler, vice president of research and evaluation at Sesame Workshop. \"We think, 'Oh, you're a good kid. You're gonna be kind.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that's not entirely wrong. Humans are certainly born with a capacity to be kind — even \u003cem>leaning\u003c/em> toward kindness in many situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have neurons in our brains, called mirror neurons, and they respond in the same way when we experience pain, say by being pricked with a needle, as they do when we see someone else experience the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also see signs of what is called empathic distress even in babies, says Thomas Lickona, a psychologist and author of \u003cem>How to Raise Kind Kids\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Soon after birth, children will be more likely to cry as a result of hearing another child cry than in response to any other sort of noise,\" says Lickona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But kindness is about more than sensing someone else's pain. It's also about wanting to do something about it — and then actually being helpful. Lickona says kids show an early preference for helping, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/311/5765/1301.full\">one study\u003c/a>, when toddlers observed an adult appear to accidentally drop something, nearly every one of them responded by helping, usually within seconds, Lickona says. \"And they did this without any request from the adult and without even being thanked by the adult. And it didn't matter whether or not the parent was in the room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, this preference for helping shows up even earlier. Kiley Hamlin is an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, and she has used puppets to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06288#article-info\">test this preference\u003c/a> in babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamlin had infants watch as a puppet looked longingly up a hill it wanted to climb. When the puppet tried, though, one of two things happened: Either a helper puppet gave the climber a boost up the hill or, once at the top, the climber puppet got bumped back down by a hinderer puppet. Hamlin then put the helper and hinderer in front of the babies and waited to see which one they preferred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The surprising thing was the sheer number of babies who were showing this preference for the helper,\" says Hamlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-53928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/07/nature06288-s1-helper.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Climber (red circle) fails to get up the hill on its own and is boosted to the top by the Helper (yellow triangle). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nature)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53931\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-53931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/07/nature06288-s6-hinderer-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The red circle rests at the top of the hill before being pushed down to the bottom by the yellow triangle. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nature)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/kindness-20190611?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 75% and 100% of babies in these studies tend to reach for, or look longer at, the helper puppet rather than the meanie, Hamlin says. This suggests that even babies are picking up on \"who has goals that need help, who did what to whom, who's a good guy, who's a bad guy, and that they're using this understanding in order to structure sort of their own social preferences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we said, in some ways, kids are born kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are also big barriers to kindness. For example, in one \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/1129406?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents\">small study\u003c/a>, children who were roughly 2 years old witnessed other kids in distress. Perhaps a fellow child fell on the playground, though not necessarily someone they knew. In only a third of these situations did the bystander children respond with altruism — going over to the child, offering a hug, or calling for an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What gets in the way of kindness? Lots of things. For one, young kids are naturally self-centered. The ability to take others' perspective is something they have to develop through experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also temperament. Some kids really can't handle other kids' pain. Or maybe they're shy, or not sure what to do, and they wait for someone else to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's another, more disturbing barrier to kindness: Tribalism. Not just a preference for those who look and act like us but even a desire to see those not like us treated badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-six-months-u-t-research-reveals\">University of Toronto study\u003c/a>, infants as young as six months old showed a preference for members of their own race and against members of different races. And this us vs. them mentality extends beyond physical differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamlin, at the University of British Columbia, introduced a new variable to her puppet shows. When the puppet and baby liked different snacks, the baby wasn't just less kind. She often wanted the puppet that did not share her snack preference \u003cem>punished\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Babies did seem to care more about who was like them than they cared about niceness and meanness,\" says Hamlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So here's a real forerunner, evident as early as six months of age, of what becomes ugly prejudice, discrimination and so on later on,\" says Tom Lickona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No surprise, much of the hard work of cultivating a more consistent kindness in children — especially toward people who aren't like them — falls to parents, teachers, and the rest of us grown-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that study of the kids who observed fellow children in distress? The ones who were most likely to help had mothers who were warm and nurturing but also gave direct and firm moral instruction. (The study only examined mothers). These mothers took it very seriously when their child harmed another child. Lickona says they gave clear correction, and did so with feeling. For example, \"You \u003cem>hurt\u003c/em> Amy. Pulling hair hurts. \u003cem>Never \u003c/em>pull hair\u003cem>.\" \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message? Hurting is a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a result, the child was more likely to take it seriously later on and respond compassionately when she saw another child crying on the playground,\" Lickona says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, kindness is complicated. We're born with the wiring for both kindness and cruelty, so altruism is not inevitable. It's a skill and a habit that we have the power — and responsibility — to foster, one good deed at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Kindness+Vs.+Cruelty%3A+Helping+Kids+Hear+The+Better+Angels+Of+Their+Nature&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A hardwired, us-vs.-them mentality can easily pull kids away from kindness, toward cruelty. Here's what parents can do about it. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1562567865,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1071},"headData":{"title":"Kindness Vs. Cruelty: Helping Kids Hear The Better Angels Of Their Nature | KQED","description":"A hardwired, us-vs.-them mentality can easily pull kids away from kindness, toward cruelty. Here's what parents can do about it. 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It's a common assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We often just expect people to be kind without talking about it,\" says Jennifer Kotler, vice president of research and evaluation at Sesame Workshop. \"We think, 'Oh, you're a good kid. You're gonna be kind.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that's not entirely wrong. Humans are certainly born with a capacity to be kind — even \u003cem>leaning\u003c/em> toward kindness in many situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have neurons in our brains, called mirror neurons, and they respond in the same way when we experience pain, say by being pricked with a needle, as they do when we see someone else experience the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also see signs of what is called empathic distress even in babies, says Thomas Lickona, a psychologist and author of \u003cem>How to Raise Kind Kids\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Soon after birth, children will be more likely to cry as a result of hearing another child cry than in response to any other sort of noise,\" says Lickona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But kindness is about more than sensing someone else's pain. It's also about wanting to do something about it — and then actually being helpful. Lickona says kids show an early preference for helping, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://science.sciencemag.org/content/311/5765/1301.full\">one study\u003c/a>, when toddlers observed an adult appear to accidentally drop something, nearly every one of them responded by helping, usually within seconds, Lickona says. \"And they did this without any request from the adult and without even being thanked by the adult. And it didn't matter whether or not the parent was in the room.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, this preference for helping shows up even earlier. Kiley Hamlin is an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, and she has used puppets to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06288#article-info\">test this preference\u003c/a> in babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamlin had infants watch as a puppet looked longingly up a hill it wanted to climb. When the puppet tried, though, one of two things happened: Either a helper puppet gave the climber a boost up the hill or, once at the top, the climber puppet got bumped back down by a hinderer puppet. Hamlin then put the helper and hinderer in front of the babies and waited to see which one they preferred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The surprising thing was the sheer number of babies who were showing this preference for the helper,\" says Hamlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-53928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/07/nature06288-s1-helper.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Climber (red circle) fails to get up the hill on its own and is boosted to the top by the Helper (yellow triangle). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nature)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53931\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-53931\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/07/nature06288-s6-hinderer-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The red circle rests at the top of the hill before being pushed down to the bottom by the yellow triangle. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nature)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/kindness-20190611?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 75% and 100% of babies in these studies tend to reach for, or look longer at, the helper puppet rather than the meanie, Hamlin says. This suggests that even babies are picking up on \"who has goals that need help, who did what to whom, who's a good guy, who's a bad guy, and that they're using this understanding in order to structure sort of their own social preferences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we said, in some ways, kids are born kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are also big barriers to kindness. For example, in one \u003ca href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/1129406?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents\">small study\u003c/a>, children who were roughly 2 years old witnessed other kids in distress. Perhaps a fellow child fell on the playground, though not necessarily someone they knew. In only a third of these situations did the bystander children respond with altruism — going over to the child, offering a hug, or calling for an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What gets in the way of kindness? Lots of things. For one, young kids are naturally self-centered. The ability to take others' perspective is something they have to develop through experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also temperament. Some kids really can't handle other kids' pain. Or maybe they're shy, or not sure what to do, and they wait for someone else to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's another, more disturbing barrier to kindness: Tribalism. Not just a preference for those who look and act like us but even a desire to see those not like us treated badly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-six-months-u-t-research-reveals\">University of Toronto study\u003c/a>, infants as young as six months old showed a preference for members of their own race and against members of different races. And this us vs. them mentality extends beyond physical differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamlin, at the University of British Columbia, introduced a new variable to her puppet shows. When the puppet and baby liked different snacks, the baby wasn't just less kind. She often wanted the puppet that did not share her snack preference \u003cem>punished\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Babies did seem to care more about who was like them than they cared about niceness and meanness,\" says Hamlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So here's a real forerunner, evident as early as six months of age, of what becomes ugly prejudice, discrimination and so on later on,\" says Tom Lickona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No surprise, much of the hard work of cultivating a more consistent kindness in children — especially toward people who aren't like them — falls to parents, teachers, and the rest of us grown-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that study of the kids who observed fellow children in distress? The ones who were most likely to help had mothers who were warm and nurturing but also gave direct and firm moral instruction. (The study only examined mothers). These mothers took it very seriously when their child harmed another child. Lickona says they gave clear correction, and did so with feeling. For example, \"You \u003cem>hurt\u003c/em> Amy. Pulling hair hurts. \u003cem>Never \u003c/em>pull hair\u003cem>.\" \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message? Hurting is a big deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a result, the child was more likely to take it seriously later on and respond compassionately when she saw another child crying on the playground,\" Lickona says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, kindness is complicated. We're born with the wiring for both kindness and cruelty, so altruism is not inevitable. It's a skill and a habit that we have the power — and responsibility — to foster, one good deed at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Kindness+Vs.+Cruelty%3A+Helping+Kids+Hear+The+Better+Angels+Of+Their+Nature&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/53917/kindness-vs-cruelty-helping-kids-hear-the-better-angels-of-their-nature","authors":["byline_mindshift_53917"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_20720","mindshift_20955","mindshift_21106","mindshift_943"],"featImg":"mindshift_53918","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_53166":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_53166","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"53166","score":null,"sort":[1551252016000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"anger-can-be-contagious-heres-how-to-stop-the-spread","title":"Anger Can Be Contagious — Here's How To Stop The Spread","publishDate":1551252016,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Even if you're not aware of it, it's likely that your emotions will influence someone around you today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This can happen during our most basic exchanges, say on your commute to work. \"If someone smiles at you, you smile back at them,\" says sociologist\u003ca href=\"https://eeb.yale.edu/people/faculty-affiliated/nicholas-christakis\"> Nicholas Christakis\u003c/a> of Yale University. \"That's a very fleeting contagion of emotion from one person to another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn't stop there. Emotions can spread through social networks almost like the flu or a cold. And the extent to which emotions can cascade is eye-opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Christakis' research has shown that if you start to become happier with your life, a friend living close by has a 25 percent higher chance of becoming happy too. And your partner is more likely to feel better as well. The happiness can even spread to people to whom you're indirectly connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To document this, Christakis and his colleagues\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97831171\"> mapped out the face-to-face interactions\u003c/a> of about 5,000 people living in one town over the course of 32 years. Their emotional ups and downs were documented with periodic surveys. \"We were able to show that as one person became happy or sad, it rippled through the network,\" Christakis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just happiness that spreads. Unhappiness and anger can be contagious too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you don't have to be in the same house or city to catch someone else's emotions. There's evidence that emotional contagion can spread through our digital interactions too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Say you're in a negative mood, and you text your partner. A research study, dubbed, \"\u003ca href=\"http://collablab.northwestern.edu/CollabolabDistro/nucmc/p295-hancock.pdf\">I'm Sad You're Sad\u003c/a>,\" documented that in these types of text exchanges, your partner is likely to both sense your emotion and mirror it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, just how far does this go? A\u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788\"> study of nearly 700,000 Facebook users \u003c/a>suggests we can pick up on — and mirror — the emotions we encounter in our social media feeds too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the study, users' news feeds were altered. Some people in the study began to see more positive posts, while others began to see more negative posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We found that when good things were happening in your news feed — to your friends and your family — you also tended to write more positively and less negatively,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-hancock/\">Jeff Hancock\u003c/a>, a communications researcher at Stanford University and author the two studies on digital interactions\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the reverse was true too. Viewing more negative posts prompted people to write more sad or angry things. Overall, the effects were very small, compared with what has been documented in face-to-face interactions, \"but [the study] suggested that emotions can move through networks through contagion,\" Hancock says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of us have seen this play out on our social media feeds, especially on Twitter. Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel pokes fun at angry tweets by asking celebrities and famous athletes to read aloud the mean things that have been tweeted about them. \"Draymond Green's jump shot is almost as ugly as his face,\" NBA player Draymond Green \u003ca href=\"https://6abc.com/sports/draymond-green-and-more-nba-greats-read-mean-tweets/3547977/\">read to an audience \u003c/a>last June. \"Whoa!\" the audience responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's funny in the moment. But when you're on the receiving end of a personal attack, it's hurtful. And it increases the likelihood that you'll lash out in return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One study finds there \u003ca href=\"https://files.clr3.com/papers/2017_anyone.pdf\">may be a little bit of troll\u003c/a> in each of us. If you read a nasty message from a troll that dishes out sarcasm or a personal attack and you happen to be in a bad mood, the research shows you're more likely to copy the troll-like behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line: It's easier to be mean from behind a screen. The rules of face-to-face interactions don't exist. \"There are fewer cues,\" Hancock says. You don't see or hear the person on the receiving end of your tweet or post. \"That makes it a little harder to view you as a person,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what happened to a Twitter user named Michael Beatty who lives in Alabama. He's 65 and served in the military during the Vietnam War. Earlier this year, he got ticked off when he read a tweet written by comedian and actor \u003ca href=\"http://www.pattonoswalt.com/\">Patton Oswalt\u003c/a>. It was a negative tweet about President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I did a knee-jerk reaction,\" Beatty told us. \" I sent him two tweets back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beatty says he told Oswalt: \"I enjoyed seeing your character in [the movie] \u003cem>Blade: Trinity\u003c/em> die so horribly.\" In another tweet he poked fun at the actor's height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Beatty says, \"it was harsh, uncalled for, embarrassing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MichaelBeatty/status/1088505597442572289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1088505597442572289&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Fhealth-shots%2F2019%2F02%2F25%2F697052006%2Fanger-can-be-contagious-heres-how-to-stop-the-spread\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Oswalt's response? The actor scrolled through Beatty's feed and learned that he had some serious health issues. After a long hospital stay, he had medical bills piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next thing Beatty knew, Oswalt had donated $2,000 to Beatty's GoFundMe account and encouraged his millions of followers to follow his lead. \"This dude just attacked me on Twitter and I joked back but then I looked at his timeline and he's in a lot of trouble health-wise,\" Oswalt\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MichaelBeatty/status/1088505597442572289\"> tweeted\u003c/a>. \"I'd be pissed off too. He's been dealt some s***** cards — let's deal him some good ones.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beatty began to hear from Oswalt's followers. Some donated money; others sent encouraging messages. His GoFundMe account grew to about $50,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oswalt's generosity spread. \"It had a large cascade effect,\" Beatty says. \"I honestly, truly thought I was dreaming and this couldn't happen in real life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One act of kindness led to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I realized that knee-jerk reactions to things [are] not the way to go,\" Beatty says. It led him to slow down and reflect. \"What kind of person have I been?\" he asked himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MichaelBeatty/status/1088510194055811072\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says when he wrote those angry tweets, he was in a bad place, angry at himself for letting his health deteriorate: \"It was easy to snap back and snarl.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Beatty says the empathy shown toward him changed him. He has begun to think, \"People are good.\" He realizes that politics divide people, but one on one, \"people are caring, generous, helpful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last month, he says, he has felt his anger fade away. This manifests in lots of small ways. For instance, he used to have serious road rage. But now \"if someone wants to get over, I'll wave them in,\" Beatty says. \"I have changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story reminds us of what we should already know (and hopefully remember from watching Mister Rogers): \"It's good for us to be kind,\" Hancock says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only is it good for the world around us, but it makes us feel a lot better and disarms anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's lots of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27100366\">scientific evidence\u003c/a> that when you are kind or express gratitude you get all kinds of psychological benefits,\" says Hancock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So next time you're tempted to respond to an angry post, maybe you'll remember this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anger leads to more anger. But a single act of kindness can help stop the spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Anger+Can+Be+Contagious+%E2%80%94+Here%27s+How+To+Stop+The+Spread&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Emotions circulate through social networks — the good, bad and ugly. And these days, the feeling that seems most viral is anger. Sometimes it takes just one act of kindness to stop the vicious cycle. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1551252046,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1256},"headData":{"title":"Anger Can Be Contagious — Here's How To Stop The Spread | KQED","description":"Emotions circulate through social networks — the good, bad and ugly. And these days, the feeling that seems most viral is anger. 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Emotions can spread through social networks almost like the flu or a cold. And the extent to which emotions can cascade is eye-opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Christakis' research has shown that if you start to become happier with your life, a friend living close by has a 25 percent higher chance of becoming happy too. And your partner is more likely to feel better as well. The happiness can even spread to people to whom you're indirectly connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To document this, Christakis and his colleagues\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97831171\"> mapped out the face-to-face interactions\u003c/a> of about 5,000 people living in one town over the course of 32 years. Their emotional ups and downs were documented with periodic surveys. \"We were able to show that as one person became happy or sad, it rippled through the network,\" Christakis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not just happiness that spreads. Unhappiness and anger can be contagious too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you don't have to be in the same house or city to catch someone else's emotions. There's evidence that emotional contagion can spread through our digital interactions too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Say you're in a negative mood, and you text your partner. A research study, dubbed, \"\u003ca href=\"http://collablab.northwestern.edu/CollabolabDistro/nucmc/p295-hancock.pdf\">I'm Sad You're Sad\u003c/a>,\" documented that in these types of text exchanges, your partner is likely to both sense your emotion and mirror it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, just how far does this go? A\u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788\"> study of nearly 700,000 Facebook users \u003c/a>suggests we can pick up on — and mirror — the emotions we encounter in our social media feeds too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the study, users' news feeds were altered. Some people in the study began to see more positive posts, while others began to see more negative posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We found that when good things were happening in your news feed — to your friends and your family — you also tended to write more positively and less negatively,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-hancock/\">Jeff Hancock\u003c/a>, a communications researcher at Stanford University and author the two studies on digital interactions\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the reverse was true too. Viewing more negative posts prompted people to write more sad or angry things. Overall, the effects were very small, compared with what has been documented in face-to-face interactions, \"but [the study] suggested that emotions can move through networks through contagion,\" Hancock says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of us have seen this play out on our social media feeds, especially on Twitter. Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel pokes fun at angry tweets by asking celebrities and famous athletes to read aloud the mean things that have been tweeted about them. \"Draymond Green's jump shot is almost as ugly as his face,\" NBA player Draymond Green \u003ca href=\"https://6abc.com/sports/draymond-green-and-more-nba-greats-read-mean-tweets/3547977/\">read to an audience \u003c/a>last June. \"Whoa!\" the audience responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's funny in the moment. But when you're on the receiving end of a personal attack, it's hurtful. And it increases the likelihood that you'll lash out in return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One study finds there \u003ca href=\"https://files.clr3.com/papers/2017_anyone.pdf\">may be a little bit of troll\u003c/a> in each of us. If you read a nasty message from a troll that dishes out sarcasm or a personal attack and you happen to be in a bad mood, the research shows you're more likely to copy the troll-like behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bottom line: It's easier to be mean from behind a screen. The rules of face-to-face interactions don't exist. \"There are fewer cues,\" Hancock says. You don't see or hear the person on the receiving end of your tweet or post. \"That makes it a little harder to view you as a person,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what happened to a Twitter user named Michael Beatty who lives in Alabama. He's 65 and served in the military during the Vietnam War. Earlier this year, he got ticked off when he read a tweet written by comedian and actor \u003ca href=\"http://www.pattonoswalt.com/\">Patton Oswalt\u003c/a>. It was a negative tweet about President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I did a knee-jerk reaction,\" Beatty told us. \" I sent him two tweets back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beatty says he told Oswalt: \"I enjoyed seeing your character in [the movie] \u003cem>Blade: Trinity\u003c/em> die so horribly.\" In another tweet he poked fun at the actor's height.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Beatty says, \"it was harsh, uncalled for, embarrassing.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1088505597442572289"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>And Oswalt's response? The actor scrolled through Beatty's feed and learned that he had some serious health issues. After a long hospital stay, he had medical bills piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next thing Beatty knew, Oswalt had donated $2,000 to Beatty's GoFundMe account and encouraged his millions of followers to follow his lead. \"This dude just attacked me on Twitter and I joked back but then I looked at his timeline and he's in a lot of trouble health-wise,\" Oswalt\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MichaelBeatty/status/1088505597442572289\"> tweeted\u003c/a>. \"I'd be pissed off too. He's been dealt some s***** cards — let's deal him some good ones.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beatty began to hear from Oswalt's followers. Some donated money; others sent encouraging messages. His GoFundMe account grew to about $50,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oswalt's generosity spread. \"It had a large cascade effect,\" Beatty says. \"I honestly, truly thought I was dreaming and this couldn't happen in real life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One act of kindness led to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I realized that knee-jerk reactions to things [are] not the way to go,\" Beatty says. It led him to slow down and reflect. \"What kind of person have I been?\" he asked himself.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1088510194055811072"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>He says when he wrote those angry tweets, he was in a bad place, angry at himself for letting his health deteriorate: \"It was easy to snap back and snarl.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Beatty says the empathy shown toward him changed him. He has begun to think, \"People are good.\" He realizes that politics divide people, but one on one, \"people are caring, generous, helpful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last month, he says, he has felt his anger fade away. This manifests in lots of small ways. For instance, he used to have serious road rage. But now \"if someone wants to get over, I'll wave them in,\" Beatty says. \"I have changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story reminds us of what we should already know (and hopefully remember from watching Mister Rogers): \"It's good for us to be kind,\" Hancock says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only is it good for the world around us, but it makes us feel a lot better and disarms anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's lots of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27100366\">scientific evidence\u003c/a> that when you are kind or express gratitude you get all kinds of psychological benefits,\" says Hancock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So next time you're tempted to respond to an angry post, maybe you'll remember this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anger leads to more anger. But a single act of kindness can help stop the spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Anger+Can+Be+Contagious+%E2%80%94+Here%27s+How+To+Stop+The+Spread&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/53166/anger-can-be-contagious-heres-how-to-stop-the-spread","authors":["byline_mindshift_53166"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_21247","mindshift_21133","mindshift_21106","mindshift_20865","mindshift_30"],"featImg":"mindshift_53167","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_51308":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_51308","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"51308","score":null,"sort":[1529306808000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"learning-mindfulness-centered-on-kindness-to-oneself-and-others","title":"Learning Mindfulness Centered on Kindness to Oneself and Others","publishDate":1529306808,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crowded classrooms, hectic teaching schedules and rowdy students have teachers across the country looking for ways to keep their classrooms calm. That may be one reason mindfulness programs have become so popular. Mindfulness can be practiced in many ways, but at its core mindfulness is self-awareness, a way for students to ground themselves in the moment, creating space to better understand and manage their feelings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mindfulness has become a core social and emotional learning strategy in the Austin Independent School District (AISD) in Texas. The district has even created a mindfulness specialist position, filled by James Butler, the district’s 2014 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.austinisd.org/announcements/aisd-names-james-butler-2014-elementary-school-teacher-year\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teacher of the Year\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are various understandings of\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mindful.org/jon-kabat-zinn-defining-mindfulness/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">mindfulness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but most focus on being nonjudgmental and present in the moment. Fourteen years of teaching experience has taught Butler that school-based mindfulness also must include kindness — to oneself and to others — in order to quiet the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/49190/for-teens-knee-deep-in-negativity-reframing-thoughts-can-help\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">negative thinking \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that often overwhelms young people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My basic definition of mindfulness is being aware of the present moment and being kind to yourself,” Butler said. “You’re going to have thoughts and sometimes those thoughts are going to be unkind to you. Those are thoughts. That’s not who you are.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He added, “Mindfulness isn’t to just shut off all the thoughts. It’s just to recognize those are thoughts, and to come back to your breath.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Butler emphasizes kindness because he’s troubled by some of the patterns and mindsets he has observed in students over his career.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve noticed more kids just saying a lot of, ‘I can’t do this,’ ‘I’m not smart enough,’ and just giving up and thinking ‘I can’t do it because I’m not enough.’ That’s where the kindness part comes in.” He added, “If you mess up on a test or if you make a mistake out on the playground, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person; but you might think you’re a bad person.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of a presentation at\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://schedule.sxswedu.com/2018/events/PP72927\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> SXSW EDU\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Butler and three of his former students shared what mindfulness looks like at multiple grade levels and why it’s helpful in their age group.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“High school is really stressful,” said Xavier Zamarron, a high school junior. “A lot of things can stack up on you, so it’s nice to take a breath once in a while. And also in high school you kind of feel like a crappy person all the time because of just society, and like you wonder if you’re cool or not, but none of that really matters. When we practice mindfulness, we’re only worried about what we think about ourselves.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeVIqgDAP5Y&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fifth-grader Addison Green said she thinks if mindfulness was practiced more broadly, it would help kids better resolve social conflicts. She hopes emphasizing kindness would make some of the difficult social aspects of adolescence less painful. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s helping you make better decisions, I think, and making better decisions would mean people wouldn’t get as mad at each other. And they’d treat each other a lot better. Especially in fifth grade because everybody is separating themselves and you lose a lot of friends.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Academically, Addison said she relies on mindfulness during stressful situations, like when taking high-stakes tests. It helps clarify her thinking. She said that during tests, she ends up thinking about several things at once. Mindfulness exercises help her organize those thoughts so she can focus on one thing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I feel a lot more calm and my brain is cleared out. And my memory is a lot better because, like I said, when I do it on a STAAR (State of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Texas\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Assessments of Academic Readiness) test and I’m stuck on a question, I’ll do mindfulness and then I’ll sort of understand what I learned in class.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">First-grader Teo Cardenas, the youngest student in the group, said mindfulness helped when he collided with someone at school and had to go to the hospital. He said he was scared and crying, so he took deep breaths to calm himself down.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biynm5sqEI4&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>MINDFULNESS IN THE CLASSROOM\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Butler advises educators interested in practicing mindfulness in their classrooms to develop a regular mindfulness habit for themselves first. That way they’ll feel confident in the practice before teaching it to students. He makes sure to squeeze in five minutes of mindfulness during the time it takes his coffee to steep in the morning. Previously, he used that time to check work email, but has found mindfulness to be a much better way to start the day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have that five minutes and I can just sit down and breathe while the coffee is getting ready,” said Butler. “It doesn’t have to be a one- day silent retreat. Just having a simple tiny teeny practice, every day, that’s awesome just so you know what it’s like. So when you share with your kids, you can empathize, and that makes all the difference in the world.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQsnJfLFd5I&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for practicing mindfulness with students, Butler says the exercises are similar across the different age groups, but there are unique challenges to scheduling time at different school levels. Taking five minutes might be easier in elementary school when kids are with the same teacher for the whole day, while the increased number of transitions in middle and high school makes exercises harder to schedule. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schools with advisory or homeroom are well equipped to practice mindfulness, but Butler said it can also be effective as a transition tool. One middle school science teacher he knows started the school year by introducing a new mindfulness exercise each week, such as breathing, journaling or coloring. Once students were acquainted with a range of mindfulness strategies, the teacher let them pick the one that best fit their needs each week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having students lead mindfulness exercises also helped with buy-in, in part because adolescents were given the chance to be in charge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The kids who are like, ‘this is dumb,’ when they had a chance to lead or when their friends led, they were into it,” said Butler. “A lot of times kids just want to be heard, even if it’s as simple as pushing play on a mindfulness app.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>STUDENT RECOMMENDATIONS\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student presenters at SXSW EDU shared their recommended tools for practicing mindfulness in the form of books, sites and apps.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teo, the first-grader, recommends the books\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10237568-your-fantastic-elastic-brain-stretch-it-shape-it\"> \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your Fantastic Elastic Brain\"\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31915556-listening-to-my-body\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \"Listening to My Body\"\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the website\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gonoodle.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">GoNoodle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.destressmonday.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Destress Monday\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, especially the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.destressmonday.org/6-gifs-help-relax/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gifs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the apps\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stopbreathethink.com/kids/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stop Breathe & Think Kids\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://adventuresofsuperstretch.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Super Stretch Yoga\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://www.destressmonday.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DestressBreathing2_Final.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Addison, in fifth grade, recommends the books\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9089876-what-does-it-mean-to-be-present\"> \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What Does It Mean to Be Present?\"\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31915556-listening-to-my-body\"> \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listening To My Body\"\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the website\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gonoodle.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">GoNoodle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://mindyeti.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mind Yeti\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the apps\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calm.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Calm\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smilingmind.com.au/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smiling Mind\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xavier, the 11th-grader, recommends the books\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25430578-cure\"> \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cure: A Journey Into Science of Mind Over Body\"\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25817140-the-happiness-track?from_search=true\"> \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success\"; \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the websites\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pocketmindfulness.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pocket Mindfulness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://marc.ucla.edu/mindful-meditations\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the apps\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calm.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Calm\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smilingmind.com.au/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smiling Mind\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For educators seeking to start a mindfulness practice, Butler has a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jD_wKrbPDflgOcAusAob7kohY4PwWFRg2hibN1WwdcA/edit\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">list of recommendations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> he hands out to educators and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk8vStkqPsIPKQv5a7w_dkyy86e4PfF7K\">#mindfulAISD\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4nEckPgWA&feature=youtu.be&list=PLk8vStkqPsIPKQv5a7w_dkyy86e4PfF7K\">YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Students in the Austin Independent School District demonstrate how they practice mindfulness as part of a daily routine and in times of stress. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Learning Mindfulness Centered on Kindness to Oneself and Others","datePublished":"2018-06-18T07:26:48.000Z","dateModified":"2018-06-18T23:32:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"51308 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=51308","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2018/06/18/learning-mindfulness-centered-on-kindness-to-oneself-and-others/","disqusTitle":"Learning Mindfulness Centered on Kindness to Oneself and Others","path":"/mindshift/51308/learning-mindfulness-centered-on-kindness-to-oneself-and-others","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crowded classrooms, hectic teaching schedules and rowdy students have teachers across the country looking for ways to keep their classrooms calm. That may be one reason mindfulness programs have become so popular. Mindfulness can be practiced in many ways, but at its core mindfulness is self-awareness, a way for students to ground themselves in the moment, creating space to better understand and manage their feelings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mindfulness has become a core social and emotional learning strategy in the Austin Independent School District (AISD) in Texas. The district has even created a mindfulness specialist position, filled by James Butler, the district’s 2014 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.austinisd.org/announcements/aisd-names-james-butler-2014-elementary-school-teacher-year\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teacher of the Year\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are various understandings of\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mindful.org/jon-kabat-zinn-defining-mindfulness/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">mindfulness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but most focus on being nonjudgmental and present in the moment. Fourteen years of teaching experience has taught Butler that school-based mindfulness also must include kindness — to oneself and to others — in order to quiet the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/49190/for-teens-knee-deep-in-negativity-reframing-thoughts-can-help\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">negative thinking \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">that often overwhelms young people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My basic definition of mindfulness is being aware of the present moment and being kind to yourself,” Butler said. “You’re going to have thoughts and sometimes those thoughts are going to be unkind to you. Those are thoughts. That’s not who you are.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He added, “Mindfulness isn’t to just shut off all the thoughts. It’s just to recognize those are thoughts, and to come back to your breath.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Butler emphasizes kindness because he’s troubled by some of the patterns and mindsets he has observed in students over his career.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve noticed more kids just saying a lot of, ‘I can’t do this,’ ‘I’m not smart enough,’ and just giving up and thinking ‘I can’t do it because I’m not enough.’ That’s where the kindness part comes in.” He added, “If you mess up on a test or if you make a mistake out on the playground, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person; but you might think you’re a bad person.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of a presentation at\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://schedule.sxswedu.com/2018/events/PP72927\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> SXSW EDU\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Butler and three of his former students shared what mindfulness looks like at multiple grade levels and why it’s helpful in their age group.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“High school is really stressful,” said Xavier Zamarron, a high school junior. “A lot of things can stack up on you, so it’s nice to take a breath once in a while. And also in high school you kind of feel like a crappy person all the time because of just society, and like you wonder if you’re cool or not, but none of that really matters. When we practice mindfulness, we’re only worried about what we think about ourselves.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/KeVIqgDAP5Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/KeVIqgDAP5Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fifth-grader Addison Green said she thinks if mindfulness was practiced more broadly, it would help kids better resolve social conflicts. She hopes emphasizing kindness would make some of the difficult social aspects of adolescence less painful. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s helping you make better decisions, I think, and making better decisions would mean people wouldn’t get as mad at each other. And they’d treat each other a lot better. Especially in fifth grade because everybody is separating themselves and you lose a lot of friends.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Academically, Addison said she relies on mindfulness during stressful situations, like when taking high-stakes tests. It helps clarify her thinking. She said that during tests, she ends up thinking about several things at once. Mindfulness exercises help her organize those thoughts so she can focus on one thing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I feel a lot more calm and my brain is cleared out. And my memory is a lot better because, like I said, when I do it on a STAAR (State of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Texas\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Assessments of Academic Readiness) test and I’m stuck on a question, I’ll do mindfulness and then I’ll sort of understand what I learned in class.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">First-grader Teo Cardenas, the youngest student in the group, said mindfulness helped when he collided with someone at school and had to go to the hospital. He said he was scared and crying, so he took deep breaths to calm himself down.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/biynm5sqEI4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/biynm5sqEI4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>MINDFULNESS IN THE CLASSROOM\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Butler advises educators interested in practicing mindfulness in their classrooms to develop a regular mindfulness habit for themselves first. That way they’ll feel confident in the practice before teaching it to students. He makes sure to squeeze in five minutes of mindfulness during the time it takes his coffee to steep in the morning. Previously, he used that time to check work email, but has found mindfulness to be a much better way to start the day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have that five minutes and I can just sit down and breathe while the coffee is getting ready,” said Butler. “It doesn’t have to be a one- day silent retreat. Just having a simple tiny teeny practice, every day, that’s awesome just so you know what it’s like. So when you share with your kids, you can empathize, and that makes all the difference in the world.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/BQsnJfLFd5I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/BQsnJfLFd5I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for practicing mindfulness with students, Butler says the exercises are similar across the different age groups, but there are unique challenges to scheduling time at different school levels. Taking five minutes might be easier in elementary school when kids are with the same teacher for the whole day, while the increased number of transitions in middle and high school makes exercises harder to schedule. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schools with advisory or homeroom are well equipped to practice mindfulness, but Butler said it can also be effective as a transition tool. One middle school science teacher he knows started the school year by introducing a new mindfulness exercise each week, such as breathing, journaling or coloring. Once students were acquainted with a range of mindfulness strategies, the teacher let them pick the one that best fit their needs each week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having students lead mindfulness exercises also helped with buy-in, in part because adolescents were given the chance to be in charge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The kids who are like, ‘this is dumb,’ when they had a chance to lead or when their friends led, they were into it,” said Butler. “A lot of times kids just want to be heard, even if it’s as simple as pushing play on a mindfulness app.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>STUDENT RECOMMENDATIONS\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student presenters at SXSW EDU shared their recommended tools for practicing mindfulness in the form of books, sites and apps.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teo, the first-grader, recommends the books\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10237568-your-fantastic-elastic-brain-stretch-it-shape-it\"> \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your Fantastic Elastic Brain\"\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31915556-listening-to-my-body\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \"Listening to My Body\"\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the website\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gonoodle.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">GoNoodle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.destressmonday.org/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Destress Monday\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, especially the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.destressmonday.org/6-gifs-help-relax/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gifs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the apps\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stopbreathethink.com/kids/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stop Breathe & Think Kids\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://adventuresofsuperstretch.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Super Stretch Yoga\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://www.destressmonday.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DestressBreathing2_Final.gif\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Addison, in fifth grade, recommends the books\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9089876-what-does-it-mean-to-be-present\"> \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What Does It Mean to Be Present?\"\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31915556-listening-to-my-body\"> \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listening To My Body\"\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the website\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gonoodle.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">GoNoodle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://mindyeti.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mind Yeti\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the apps\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calm.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Calm\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smilingmind.com.au/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smiling Mind\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xavier, the 11th-grader, recommends the books\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25430578-cure\"> \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cure: A Journey Into Science of Mind Over Body\"\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25817140-the-happiness-track?from_search=true\"> \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success\"; \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the websites\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pocketmindfulness.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pocket Mindfulness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://marc.ucla.edu/mindful-meditations\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; the apps\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calm.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Calm\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smilingmind.com.au/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smiling Mind\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For educators seeking to start a mindfulness practice, Butler has a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jD_wKrbPDflgOcAusAob7kohY4PwWFRg2hibN1WwdcA/edit\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">list of recommendations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> he hands out to educators and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk8vStkqPsIPKQv5a7w_dkyy86e4PfF7K\">#mindfulAISD\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4nEckPgWA&feature=youtu.be&list=PLk8vStkqPsIPKQv5a7w_dkyy86e4PfF7K\">YouTube channel\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/51308/learning-mindfulness-centered-on-kindness-to-oneself-and-others","authors":["4596"],"categories":["mindshift_192"],"tags":["mindshift_20589","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21106","mindshift_20865","mindshift_841","mindshift_943","mindshift_1011"],"featImg":"mindshift_51430","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_49896":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_49896","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"49896","score":null,"sort":[1513585439000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dalai-lama-inspires-emphasis-on-kindness-in-schools","title":"Dalai Lama Inspires Emphasis on Kindness in Schools","publishDate":1513585439,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Some educators would like to believe that their job is to be content specialists, but increasingly they are realizing that without the social and emotional skills to navigate setbacks and difficult relationships kids won't learn much. Some schools weave social and emotional learning throughout the day, integrating it with content, while others use \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/01/12/how-schools-build-a-positive-culture-through-advisory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advisory\u003c/a> as a place students can talk about their problems. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/01/17/low-income-schools-see-big-benefits-in-teaching-mindfulness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindfulness \u003c/a>has gained traction in classrooms. And, increasingly schools are explicitly focusing on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/06/06/how-making-kindness-a-priority-benefits-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the value of kindness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/well/family/kindness-curriculum-preschool.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article\u003c/a> Richard Schiffman discusses one kindness program inspired by the Dalai Lama's call to take contemplative practice out of a religious context and make it useful to people's lives. A big chunk of the program aims to help young kids name their emotions and talk through them. Schiffman writes there's some research backing up the approach too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>They may also fare better later in life. One 2015 study that tracked kindergartners to young adulthood found that individuals with good prosocial skills — behavior that is positive, helpful and friendly — tended to be more successful as adults than those who did well in subjects like reading and math but lacked the ability to get along with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kindness Curriculum is part of a growing global movement to teach emotional intelligence in schools. Advocates of this approach say it’s shortsighted for teachers to focus narrowly on intellectual learning and ignore the cooperative emotional skills that enable learning — and learners — to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some question whether personality traits like kindness can be taught.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/well/family/kindness-curriculum-preschool.html?_r=0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Focusing on kindness is an approachable way to get kids in touch with their feelings and growing social intelligence.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1513585439,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":281},"headData":{"title":"Dalai Lama Inspires Emphasis on Kindness in Schools | KQED","description":"Focusing on kindness is an approachable way to get kids in touch with their feelings and growing social intelligence.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Dalai Lama Inspires Emphasis on Kindness in Schools","datePublished":"2017-12-18T08:23:59.000Z","dateModified":"2017-12-18T08:23:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"49896 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=49896","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/12/18/dalai-lama-inspires-emphasis-on-kindness-in-schools/","disqusTitle":"Dalai Lama Inspires Emphasis on Kindness in Schools","path":"/mindshift/49896/dalai-lama-inspires-emphasis-on-kindness-in-schools","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Some educators would like to believe that their job is to be content specialists, but increasingly they are realizing that without the social and emotional skills to navigate setbacks and difficult relationships kids won't learn much. Some schools weave social and emotional learning throughout the day, integrating it with content, while others use \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/01/12/how-schools-build-a-positive-culture-through-advisory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advisory\u003c/a> as a place students can talk about their problems. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/01/17/low-income-schools-see-big-benefits-in-teaching-mindfulness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindfulness \u003c/a>has gained traction in classrooms. And, increasingly schools are explicitly focusing on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/06/06/how-making-kindness-a-priority-benefits-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the value of kindness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/well/family/kindness-curriculum-preschool.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article\u003c/a> Richard Schiffman discusses one kindness program inspired by the Dalai Lama's call to take contemplative practice out of a religious context and make it useful to people's lives. A big chunk of the program aims to help young kids name their emotions and talk through them. Schiffman writes there's some research backing up the approach too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>They may also fare better later in life. One 2015 study that tracked kindergartners to young adulthood found that individuals with good prosocial skills — behavior that is positive, helpful and friendly — tended to be more successful as adults than those who did well in subjects like reading and math but lacked the ability to get along with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kindness Curriculum is part of a growing global movement to teach emotional intelligence in schools. Advocates of this approach say it’s shortsighted for teachers to focus narrowly on intellectual learning and ignore the cooperative emotional skills that enable learning — and learners — to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some question whether personality traits like kindness can be taught.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/well/family/kindness-curriculum-preschool.html?_r=0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/49896/dalai-lama-inspires-emphasis-on-kindness-in-schools","authors":["234"],"categories":["mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_21157","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21106","mindshift_943"],"featImg":"mindshift_49898","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_48259":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_48259","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"48259","score":null,"sort":[1496751957000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-making-kindness-a-priority-benefits-students","title":"How Making Kindness a Priority Benefits Students","publishDate":1496751957,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>He goes by Ice, but Tanapat Treyanurak is known among his peers at Hamilton College for his disarming warmth. He grew up in a village in Thailand, where he lived with two older brothers, his mother and father, and his grandmother. Both parents worked long hours, so Ice spent considerable time with his grandmother, who encouraged him to be kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the small international school he attended for 10 years, Ice heard the same message from teachers and coaches: Listen to others, be considerate, think beyond yourself. Ice remembers the unusual kindness of his middle school phys ed teacher, who made a special effort to include and encourage the athletically unskilled, and who never let bullies get away with casual cruelty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ice absorbed these lessons and has applied them throughout his life. At college in New York, he smiles at everyone, treats strangers he meets like future friends, and sets his own work aside to help others. “More often than not, it pays to smile at people and say ‘hi,’ and to help when I can,” Ice said. He has avoided campus cliques, remaining friendly with disconnected groups, and serves as a resident adviser in one of the student dorms. His conscious effort to be kind “started off as listening to my grandmother and my teachers growing up,” Ice said. “And the more I did it, the more rewarding it became.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treating others with kindness was at the center of Ice’s family and his school. But for many students in the U.S., the importance of being kind trails behind other cultural values. In a 2014 \u003ca href=\"https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/files/gse-mcc/files/mcc-research-report.pdf\">Harvard study\u003c/a> of 10,000 middle and high school kids, 80 percent of the students said they value achievement and happiness over caring for others. While 96 percent of parents report that they want above all for their children to be caring, 81 percent of kids said they believe their parents value achievement and happiness more. A similar math holds for students and teachers: 62 percent of kids believe their teachers prize academic success above all. And this thinking affects student behavior: The very same kids who rank caring for others behind happiness and achievement, and who believe their parents want the same, scored low on an empathy scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It matters that the young learn to be kind because a caring outlook is linked to positive life outcomes across multiple domains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the basis of a democratic and ethical society,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/richard-weissbourd\">Rick Weissbourd\u003c/a>, author of \u003cem>The Parents We Mean to Be\u003c/em>, who serves as Faculty Director of the Making Caring Common project at Harvard. For free societies to function, citizens need to look beyond narrow self-interest and consider the public good. A singular focus on achievement undercuts the basis of a civil culture, which depends on cooperation and personal sacrifice for the betterment of all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dc91nRSbzQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wharton psychology professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.adamgrant.net/\">Adam Grant, author of \u003cem>Give and Take\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>: A Revolutionary Approach to Success\u003c/em>, has made a career of showing how generosity at work leads to professional advancement. Contrary to the conventional notion that job wins require a kind of ruthless selfishness, especially in business, Grant has found that most who are generous with their ideas and time—and who have figured out how to collaborate and network—have better professional outcomes than their less charitable colleagues. Provided that the “givers” don’t lose sight of their own interests, and so avoid becoming exploited, kind employees advance at higher rates than their self-centered peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong relationships, too, are grounded in kindness. Recent research on marriage reveals that regular acts of kindness and generosity fasten couples together. (Contempt, on the other hand, divides them.) Psychologists John and Julie Gottman, who study marital stability through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gottman.com/about/research/couples/\">Gottman Institute\u003c/a>, found that particular types of kindness are especially valuable in a marriage: being charitable about the partner’s intention—i.e., not assuming the worst when things go wrong—and celebrating the spouse’s successes. The Gottmans report that this “active constructive responding,” as they call it, when partners react positively and enthusiastically about their mate’s success, is associated with high-quality, long-term relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And kids learn more when kindness and tolerance run through a school culture. “The school community functions so much better when kids have strong social-emotional skills,” Weissbourd said. Having empathy, being able to consider another’s perspective, and managing one’s own emotions and actions, all of which are connected to kindness, are linked to \u003ca href=\"http://www.srcd.org/sites/default/files/documents/spr_264_final_2.pdf\">academic success\u003c/a>. The converse is also true: schools with hostile cultures, where kids feel threatened and distracted, make learning more difficult. And students who lack trusting relationships with teachers are also at a learning disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that social and emotional skills, including kindness, can be taught and learned, and that children benefit from the lessons. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21291449\">2011 review\u003c/a> of 213 programs designed to teach social and emotional skills in school to children of all ages, kids who took part in the initiatives improved their outlook and behavior toward others. They also had better academic performance and showed improved social-emotional awareness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some might ask if it makes sense to focus on teaching kids how to get along. Isn’t it important for them to learn how to assert themselves, to speak up for what they believe, regardless of others’ feelings? Alison Cashin, who works alongside Weissbourd at Making Caring Common, believes it’s possible to protest and demand change without resorting to nastiness. Advocacy work and kindness are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, social justice warriors would be wise to see their opponents through a lens of kindness and concern, Cashin said, “so we don’t lose the context of what we’re advocating for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who doubt whether it’s the business of schools to teach children how to be kind, Weissbourd has some questions of his own. “Why is achievement important? Why is happiness important?” He finds the question odd. Kindness, he said, is at the core of what it means to be human. “Being human is to care for other people,” he said. “Why should we teach anything?”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Achievement is considered a higher priority than caring for others, according to kids surveyed. 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He grew up in a village in Thailand, where he lived with two older brothers, his mother and father, and his grandmother. Both parents worked long hours, so Ice spent considerable time with his grandmother, who encouraged him to be kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the small international school he attended for 10 years, Ice heard the same message from teachers and coaches: Listen to others, be considerate, think beyond yourself. Ice remembers the unusual kindness of his middle school phys ed teacher, who made a special effort to include and encourage the athletically unskilled, and who never let bullies get away with casual cruelty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ice absorbed these lessons and has applied them throughout his life. At college in New York, he smiles at everyone, treats strangers he meets like future friends, and sets his own work aside to help others. “More often than not, it pays to smile at people and say ‘hi,’ and to help when I can,” Ice said. He has avoided campus cliques, remaining friendly with disconnected groups, and serves as a resident adviser in one of the student dorms. His conscious effort to be kind “started off as listening to my grandmother and my teachers growing up,” Ice said. “And the more I did it, the more rewarding it became.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treating others with kindness was at the center of Ice’s family and his school. But for many students in the U.S., the importance of being kind trails behind other cultural values. In a 2014 \u003ca href=\"https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/files/gse-mcc/files/mcc-research-report.pdf\">Harvard study\u003c/a> of 10,000 middle and high school kids, 80 percent of the students said they value achievement and happiness over caring for others. While 96 percent of parents report that they want above all for their children to be caring, 81 percent of kids said they believe their parents value achievement and happiness more. 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And this thinking affects student behavior: The very same kids who rank caring for others behind happiness and achievement, and who believe their parents want the same, scored low on an empathy scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It matters that the young learn to be kind because a caring outlook is linked to positive life outcomes across multiple domains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the basis of a democratic and ethical society,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/richard-weissbourd\">Rick Weissbourd\u003c/a>, author of \u003cem>The Parents We Mean to Be\u003c/em>, who serves as Faculty Director of the Making Caring Common project at Harvard. For free societies to function, citizens need to look beyond narrow self-interest and consider the public good. A singular focus on achievement undercuts the basis of a civil culture, which depends on cooperation and personal sacrifice for the betterment of all.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/_Dc91nRSbzQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/_Dc91nRSbzQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Wharton psychology professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.adamgrant.net/\">Adam Grant, author of \u003cem>Give and Take\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>: A Revolutionary Approach to Success\u003c/em>, has made a career of showing how generosity at work leads to professional advancement. Contrary to the conventional notion that job wins require a kind of ruthless selfishness, especially in business, Grant has found that most who are generous with their ideas and time—and who have figured out how to collaborate and network—have better professional outcomes than their less charitable colleagues. Provided that the “givers” don’t lose sight of their own interests, and so avoid becoming exploited, kind employees advance at higher rates than their self-centered peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong relationships, too, are grounded in kindness. Recent research on marriage reveals that regular acts of kindness and generosity fasten couples together. (Contempt, on the other hand, divides them.) Psychologists John and Julie Gottman, who study marital stability through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gottman.com/about/research/couples/\">Gottman Institute\u003c/a>, found that particular types of kindness are especially valuable in a marriage: being charitable about the partner’s intention—i.e., not assuming the worst when things go wrong—and celebrating the spouse’s successes. The Gottmans report that this “active constructive responding,” as they call it, when partners react positively and enthusiastically about their mate’s success, is associated with high-quality, long-term relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And kids learn more when kindness and tolerance run through a school culture. “The school community functions so much better when kids have strong social-emotional skills,” Weissbourd said. 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