CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Studies show that around 2 years of age, children start to show genuine empathy, understanding how other people feel even when they don’t feel the same way themselves. And not only do they feel another person’s pain, but they actually try to soothe it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Children learn empathy both from watching us and from experiencing our empathy for them. When we empathize with our children they develop trusting, secure attachments with us. Those attachments are key to their wanting to adopt our values and to model our behavior, and therefore to building their empathy for others.

Detailed explanation-3: -Now scientists say empathy is not just something we develop through our upbringing and life experiences-it is also partly inherited. A study of 46, 000 people found evidence for the first time that genes have a role in how empathetic we are. And it also found that women are generally more empathetic than men.

Detailed explanation-4: -Empathy-a concern for others-is present in children from the beginning but not much has been known about how it unfolds early in life.

Detailed explanation-5: -Empathy means that a child: Understands that she is a distinct person from those around her and that other people may have different feelings and perspective than her own. Can recognize feelings in herself and others and name them. Can regulate her own emotional responses.