Empathy in children. Educating in values ​​

The child psychologist Alicia Banderas teaches parents through her book 'Happy Children' how to educate children about the value of empathy and perseverance so that in the future they will be able to work as a team and face problems with determination. In Guiainfantil.com we speak with Alicia Bander

The child psychologist Alicia Banderas teaches parents through her book 'Happy Children' how to educate children about the value of empathy and perseverance so that in the future they will be able to work as a team and face problems with determination.

In Guiainfantil.com we speak with Alicia Banderas about the imperative that is for the life and future of the children's professional dreams to educate them in certain values ​​such as empathy.

How to educate empathy and perseverance

We are in a world where teamwork is the priority. Nowadays, having a brilliant career does not guarantee anything. Professional success and life in general depends on the management of emotions, how you work with people.

Empathy is educated, and a clear example of this is when a child does something bad or causes harm to someone, at that time parents can ask three questions to avoid letting go of the problem:1.

How do you think the friend you have harmed has felt. 2.

How would you feel if he had done it to you? 3.

What can you do to solve it? With these three simple questions you can

educate the child in empathy and sociability de, in the same way that for the will and the determination you have to educate him in perseverance. Normally, children when they are studying a math problem, for example, immediately get frustrated when they do not get the solution. The anxiety canand makes them leave the exercise unresolved, so you have to teach children that this anxiety is overcome by reading the statement carefully, breathing deeply for a few seconds and when they see that they can face the problem again they will do it successfully.

If parents get their children to understand the importance of being perseverant, when life puts them in difficulties they will know that they will have a bad time at the beginning but that they will manage to get ahead .