• If you engage in healthy self-compassion, you’ll be much better at extending compassion inside and outside of your family.
• Not only is empathy an innate quality, but acts of compassion are also actually beneficial for our bodies and minds.
• What are some ways you can practice and model self-care and self-compassion in your life?
• What are ways you can help your children both tune into commonalities and appreciate differences with others?
• Find opportunities to try out the Self-Compassion, Beginning Anew, and Kind Wishes practices.
• Review the privileges you have that others don’t, and find the right moment to discuss difficult issues such as privilege with your children.
• Give kids practical opportunities to exercise their innate kindness, like caring for plants or pets.
• Encourage your family to make eye contact and smile at people like clerks and waiters, wishing them a good day and meaning it.