Post #27 Practising Kindness
Developing kindness to others helps to forge social and emotional connections. Practising acts of kindness can promote wellbeing and shared experiences. In this post I consider how we might develop an understanding of kindness in younger children. Developing mutually enjoyable connections with others is important for social and emotional development. The shared experience of good feelings when we are kind to others promotes wellbeing and also helps us to relate to the feelings of other people. By promoting acts of kindness, we can create opportunities for our children to begin to learn about their own good feelings, the good feelings of others and to enjoy shared experiences. Model kindness and make links with good feelings explicit Kindness is an abstract concept for some of our children and previous posts have suggested ways to make kindness more meaningful. A starting point is to model kindness to our children. Find ways that you and family members can carry out acts of kin...