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Teaching Empathy to Children: Tips from Momdocs

2017

In this episode of Mom Docs, Dr. Dehra Harris shares a few tips for parents to ensure children develop healthy emotional habits and empathy skills.

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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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Erin Clabough
2019
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Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges

In Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the context of relational safety.

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Mona Delahooke
2019
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No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

The pioneering experts behind the bestselling The Whole-Brain Child now explore the ultimate child-raising challenge: discipline.

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Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
2014
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Mindful Discipline: A Loving Approach to Setting Limits and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

Grounded in mindfulness and neuroscience, this pioneering book redefines discipline and outlines the five essential elements necessary for children to thrive: unconditional love, space for children to be themselves, mentorship, healthy boundaries, and mis-takes that create learning and growth...

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Shauna Shapiro, Chris White, Christine Carter (foreword), Dean Ornish (foreword)
2014
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The SKILL-ionaire in Every Child: Boosting Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Using the Latest in Brain Research

A wide body of recent brain research shows that socio-emotional skills are best cultivated by experiences that evoke positive emotions. In this inspiring book, Dr.

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Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin
2025
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Variation is the Stuff of Life. So Why Can it Make us Uncomfortable?

Embracing difference is vital for our success as a species, but it places extra demands on the brain. Here’s how to get better at it.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2021
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Your Brain Predicts (Almost) Everything You Do

Cutting-edge neuroscience shows that your brain isn’t built for thinking—it’s made to predict your reality, and you have more power over that perception than you might think.

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Lisa Feldman-Barrett
2021
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We Have More than Five Senses. A Neuroscientist Explains the Hidden Abilities We Often Overlook

Neuroscientist Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett delves into the different ways we’re able to perceive the world that go beyond sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.

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Lisa Feldman-Barrett
2021
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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2025
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2018
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